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Document 62019CA0762
Case C-762/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija — Latvia) — ‘CV-Online Latvia’ SIA v ‘Melons’ SIA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Legal protection of databases — Directive 96/9/EC — Article 7 — Sui generis right of makers of databases — Prohibition on any third party to ‘extract’ or ‘re-utilise’, without the maker’s permission, the whole or a substantial part of the contents of the database — Database freely accessible on the internet — Meta search engine specialising in job advertisement searches — Extraction and/or re-utilisation of the contents of a database — Risk to the substantial investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the content of a database)
Case C-762/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija — Latvia) — ‘CV-Online Latvia’ SIA v ‘Melons’ SIA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Legal protection of databases — Directive 96/9/EC — Article 7 — Sui generis right of makers of databases — Prohibition on any third party to ‘extract’ or ‘re-utilise’, without the maker’s permission, the whole or a substantial part of the contents of the database — Database freely accessible on the internet — Meta search engine specialising in job advertisement searches — Extraction and/or re-utilisation of the contents of a database — Risk to the substantial investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the content of a database)
Case C-762/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija — Latvia) — ‘CV-Online Latvia’ SIA v ‘Melons’ SIA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Legal protection of databases — Directive 96/9/EC — Article 7 — Sui generis right of makers of databases — Prohibition on any third party to ‘extract’ or ‘re-utilise’, without the maker’s permission, the whole or a substantial part of the contents of the database — Database freely accessible on the internet — Meta search engine specialising in job advertisement searches — Extraction and/or re-utilisation of the contents of a database — Risk to the substantial investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the content of a database)
IO C 289, 19.7.2021, p. 8–8
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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19.7.2021 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 289/8 |
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija — Latvia) — ‘CV-Online Latvia’ SIA v ‘Melons’ SIA
(Case C-762/19) (1)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Legal protection of databases - Directive 96/9/EC - Article 7 - Sui generis right of makers of databases - Prohibition on any third party to ‘extract’ or ‘re-utilise’, without the maker’s permission, the whole or a substantial part of the contents of the database - Database freely accessible on the internet - Meta search engine specialising in job advertisement searches - Extraction and/or re-utilisation of the contents of a database - Risk to the substantial investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the content of a database)
(2021/C 289/10)
Language of the case: Latvian
Referring court
Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant:‘CV-Online Latvia’ SIA
Defendant:‘Melons’ SIA
Operative part of the judgment
Article 7(1) and (2) of Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases must be interpreted as meaning that an internet search engine specialising in searching the contents of databases, which copies and indexes the whole or a substantial part of a database freely accessible on the internet and then allows its users to search that database on its own website according to criteria relevant to its content, is ‘extracting’ and ‘re-utilising’ that content within the meaning of that provision, which may be prohibited by the maker of such a database where those acts adversely affect its investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of that content, namely that they constitute a risk to the possibility of redeeming that investment through the normal operation of the database in question, which it is for the referring court to verify.