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It's considered a "compilation". Feist addresses this in the links you supplied. However, if you're not used to reading law, this might help explain it in norma

• tzs 9y ago
  That was why I threw in the mentions of comprehensiveness, obvious organization, and obvious selection. Feist requires at least a minimum degree of creativity in the organization and selection for a compilation to be copyrightable. A compilation whose selection criteria is, for example, "everything traded on NASDAQ" and whose organization is "order by date" seems unlikely to me to have sufficient creativity to qualify.