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EU Court of Justice
Coverage of EU Court of Justice in the Nexus archive.
- EU court draws line between journalism and paid criminal record databases
The EU's highest court ruled that selling access to criminal records does not qualify as journalism, rejecting a claim by Legal Newsdesk Sweden that its Lexbase database is protected by free-expression exemptions. The court emphasized that GDPR privacy protections cannot be overridden by constitutional free-speech claims, even for entities with publication certificates.