CELEX: 62014CN0030
Language: en
Date: 2014-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-30/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) lodged on 22 January 2014  — Ryanair Ltd, Other party: PR Aviation BV

5.5.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 135/18
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) lodged on 22 January 2014 — Ryanair Ltd, Other party: PR Aviation BV
   (Case C-30/14)
   2014/C 135/20
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Hoge Raad der Nederlanden
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Ryanair Ltd
   
      Other party: PR Aviation BV
   
      Question referred
   
   Does the operation of the [Database Directive] (1) also extend to online databases which are not protected by copyright on the basis of Chapter II of the Directive, and also not by a sui generis right on the basis of Chapter III, in the sense that the freedom to use such databases through the (whether or not analogous) application of Articles 6(1) and 8 in conjunction with Article 15 [of the Database Directive], may not be limited contractually?
   
      (1)  Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases (OJ 1996 L 77, p. 20).