> Well a common example of something that can't be copyrighted in most jurisdictions is lists of things. Collections of things are copyrightable (in at least s

> Well a common example of something that can't be copyrighted in most jurisdictions is lists of things. Collections of things are copyrightable (in at least some jurisdictions). A recent legal case was brought recently by some sports stats website who sued scrapers. They didn't "own" the stats (any sports viewer could have built the collection independently), but they owned that specific aggregation. I imagine the same is for collections such as map data. Also IANAL