Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C-490/14Freistaat Bayern v Verlag Esterbauer GmbH
- Decided
- 2015-10-29
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2015:735
- CELEX
- 62014CJ0490
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Legal protection of databases — Directive 96/9/EC — Article 1(2) — Scope — Databases — Topographic maps — Independence of materials constituting a database — Possibility of separating those materials without affecting the value of their informative content — Account taken of the purpose of a topographic map for the user.
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Read from EU:s publikationsbyrå, Cellar (EUR-Lex och CURIA) on 2026-08-22.
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