Football Dataco v Sportradar: Second half and home field for database makers
Authors
Perttu Virtanen
Post-doctoral Research Scientist, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), Aalto University. The hyperlinks were last accessed on 26 April 2013 unless otherwise indicated. Many tanks to Dr. Olli Pitkänen for his valuable comments.
The Court of Justice of the European Union gave a preliminary ruling in Football Dataco Ltd v Sportradar GmbH and Others on the jurisdiction of the Courts on matters concerning the sui generis database protection. The previous Dataco case concerning copyright protection of databases, had been decided by the Court of Justice in the same year, however in this instance the solution focused essentially on the Court’s jurisdiction in the online environment which pivoted on the question of where the claimed extraction or re-utilization was deemed to occur.
