C/L/88. Does the Database Directive extend intellectual property rights to the information or facts contained in a database?

This paper looks at the first major litigation to come under the EUs Database Directive, this is the case of British Horseracing Board v William Hill. The paper looks at whether the directive goes so far as to protect the information contained in a database, as well as the database itself. If it does, this would be contrary to Recital 46 of the Directive and would make the database right much more powerful than anyone had originally imagined.