Court of Justice 29 October 2015, C-490/14 (Case C-490/14: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 29 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof — Germany) — Freistaat Bayern v Verlag Esterbauer GmbH (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Legal protection of databases — Directive 96/9/EC — Article 1(2) — Scope — Databases — Topographic maps — Independence of materials constituting a database — Possibility of separating those materials without affecting the value of their informative content — Account taken of the purpose of a topographic map for the user))

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