CELEX: C2005/006/13
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 9 November 2004 in Case C-338/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Högsta domstolen): Fixtures Marketing Ltd v Svenska Spel AB (Directive 96/9/EC — Legal protection of databases — Sui generis right — Definition of investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the contents of a database — Football fixture lists — Betting)

8.1.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/8
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Grand Chamber)
   of 9 November 2004
   in Case C-338/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Högsta domstolen): Fixtures Marketing Ltd v Svenska Spel AB (1)
   
   (Directive 96/9/EC - Legal protection of databases - Sui generis right - Definition of investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the contents of a database - Football fixture lists - Betting)
   (2005/C 6/13)
   Language of the case: Swedish
   In Case C-338/02: reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC, from the Högsta domstolen (Sweden), by decision of 10 September 2002, received at the Court on 23 September 2002, in the proceedings between Fixtures Marketing Ltd and Svenska Spel AB — the Court (Grand Chamber), composed of: V. Skouris, President, P. Jann, C.W.A. Timmermans, A. Rosas and K. Lenaerts (Rapporteur), Presidents of Chambers, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen, N. Colneric and J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; M. Múgica Arzamendi and M.-F. Contet, Principal Administrators, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 9 November 2004, in which it has ruled:
   The expression ‘investment in … the obtaining … of the contents’ of a database in 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 must be understood to refer to the resources used to seek out existing independent materials and collect them in the database. It does not cover the resources used for the creation of materials which make up the contents of a database. In the context of drawing up a fixture list for the purpose of organising football league fixtures, therefore, it does not cover the resources used to establish the dates, times and the team pairings for the various matches in the league.
   
      (1)  OJ C 274 of 9.11.2002.