Europe: CJEU — dedicated meta search engine infringes database rights (Autotrack v Gaspedaal)
On 19 December 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered an important judgment concerning the interpretation of article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC regarding the legal protection of databases, in the context of the dedicated meta search engine www.gaspedaal.nl. The CJEU’s decision effectively bans the ‘scraping’ of databases and provides a strong […]