British Horseracing Board v William Hill (C-203/02): the database right protects obtaining, not creating, data (Case C-203/02, British Horseracing Board and Others v William Hill Organization, EU:C:2004:695 (9 November 2004), operative part)
The sui generis database right rewards the effort of collecting existing material, not the effort of producing it. Tickets, chats and recordings are produced as a by-product of running a business, so a holder may not hold this right over them, and should not assume it does.
Dated 18 Oct 2026Source checked 18 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
In the source's own words
“must be understood to refer to the resources used to seek out existing independent materials and collect them in the database. It does not cover the resources used for the creation of materials which make up the contents of a database.”
Figures it counts in
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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