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You can't copyright facts, but you can copyright collections of facts. It depends, re: the oft cited example of phone books being uncopyrightable,
by shard 17y ago
You can't copyright facts, but you can copyright collections of facts.
It depends, re: the oft cited example of phone books being uncopyrightable,
- Lazlo_Nibble 17y agoThere has to be some kind of creative component to the compilation. And arguably Facebook didn't even compile the data in the first place -- it'd be like a college claiming a compilation copyright on the band fliers, roommate requests, and lost-pet ads pinned to a bulletin board in the student union building.