Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 June 2021.#SIA “CV-Online Latvia” v SIA “Melons”.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rīgas apgabaltiesas Civillietu tiesas kolēģija.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Legal protection of databases – Directive 96/9/EC – Article 7 – Sui generis right of makers of databases – Prohibition on any third party to ‘extract’ or ‘re-utilise’, without the maker’s permission, the whole or a substantial part of the contents of the database – Database freely accessible on the Internet – Meta search engine specialising in job advertisement searches – Extraction and/or re-utilisation of the contents of a database – Risk to the substantial investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the content of a database.#Case C-762/19.