Luxembourg, 09/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Justice recently issued four judgements concerning the interpretation of the 1996 EU Directive on the legal protection of databases, and more especially on the extent of such protection in the context of sports databases, a Court press release states.
The rulings in question concerned the complaint filed by a British company, Fixtures Marketing, against the organisers of sports lotteries in Finland, Sweden and Greece, who used data...