CELEX: C2007/211/40
Language: en
Date: 2007-09-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-304/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 2 July 2007 — Directmedia Publishing GmbH v 1. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2. Professor Ulrich Knoop

8.9.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 211/21
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 2 July 2007 — Directmedia Publishing GmbH v 1. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2. Professor Ulrich Knoop
   (Case C-304/07)
   (2007/C 211/40)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Bundesgerichtshof
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Appellant: Directmedia Publishing GmbH
   
      Respondents: 1. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2. Professor Ulrich Knoop
   Question referred
   Can the adoption of data from a database protected in accordance with Article 7(1) of Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases (database directive) (1) and their incorporation in a different database constitute an extraction within the meaning of Article 7(2)(a) of that directive even in the case where that adoption follows individual assessments resulting from consultation of the database, or does extraction within the meaning of that provision presuppose the (physical) copying of data?
   
      (1)  OJ 1996 L 77, p. 20.