CELEX: 62014CA0030
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-30/14: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 15 January 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden — Netherlands) — Ryanair Ltd v PR Aviation BV (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 96/9/EC — Legal protection of databases — Database not protected by copyright or the sui generis right — Contractual limitation on the rights of users of the database)

2.3.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 73/8
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 15 January 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden — Netherlands) — Ryanair Ltd v PR Aviation BV
      (Case C-30/14) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 96/9/EC - Legal protection of databases - Database not protected by copyright or the sui generis right - Contractual limitation on the rights of users of the database)
      (2015/C 073/10)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Hoge Raad der Nederlanden
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Ryanair Ltd
      
         Defendant: PR Aviation BV
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      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 it is not applicable to a database which is not protected either by copyright or by the sui generis right under that directive, so that Articles 6(1), 8 and 15 of that directive do not preclude the author of such a database from laying down contractual limitations on its use by third parties, without prejudice to the applicable national law.
      
         (1)  OJ C 135, 5.5.2014.