Court of Justice 19 December 2013, Case C-202/12: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 19 December 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof te ‘s Gravenhage — Netherlands) — Innoweb BV v Wegener ICT Media BV, Wegener Mediaventions BV (Directive 96/9/EC — Legal protection of databases — Article 7(1) and (5) — Sui generis right of the database maker — Concept of ‘re-utilisation’ — Substantial part of the contents of the database — Dedicated meta search engine)

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The document discusses the Court's judgment regarding the interpretation of Article 7(1) and (5) of Directive 96/9/EC, specifically concerning the rights of database makers to prohibit the extraction and re-utilisation of substantial parts of their databases. It concludes that a dedicated meta search engine that mimics the functionality of the original database and processes user queries in real-time constitutes a re-utilisation of the database's contents. The judgment clarifies the conditions under which such re-utilisation may conflict with the normal exploitation of the database or adversely affect the interests of its maker.AI