Court of Justice 10 July 2008, C-304/07 (Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. The Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) (Germany) asks the Court whether the transfer of data from a database protected in accordance with Article 7(1) of Directive 96/9/EC (‘the Database Protection Directive’) (2) and their incorporation in a different database can constitute an extraction within the meaning of Article