Open AccessLess Is More? Protecting Databases in the EU after Ryanair
Author(s) -
Matěj Myška,
Jakub Harašta
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
masaryk university journal of law and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1802-5951
pISSN - 1802-5943
DOI - 10.5817/mujlt2016-2-3
Subject(s) - status quo , directive , scope (computer science) , economic justice , european union , database , law , subject matter , political science , business , law and economics , economics , computer science , international trade , curriculum , programming language
This paper discussed the current status quo of legal protection of databases after the Ryanair case (C-30/14). The first part focuses on the subject matter, scope and limits of legal protection for databases according to the Directive 96/9/EC and the related relevant Court of Justice of the European Union case law. Next, it briefly discusses further possibilities of protection for databases not protected by the copyright and/or sui generis database rights. The second part analyses the recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case Ryanair (C-30/14). The third part then discusses the consequences of this decision as regards to potential monopolisation of synthetic data by contract. The conclusions are summed up in the final fourth part.