CJEU: Freistaat Bayern v. Verlag Esterbauer GmbH, C-490/14, 29 October 2015

In response to a reference from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany), the CJEU ruled that geographical information extracted from a topographic map by a third party in order to produce and market another map retains, following its extraction, sufficient informative value to be classified as ‘independent materials’ of a ‘database’ within the meaning of Article 1(2) of Directive 96/9.

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law