I doubt it since Google is fighting this battle in public instead of getting its lawyers involved. On the other hand: An interesting and possibly relevant lega

I doubt it since Google is fighting this battle in public instead of getting its lawyers involved. On the other hand: An interesting and possibly relevant legal issue here is how WestLaw's star pagination system was copied by LexisNexis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlaw#Legal_disputes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlaw#Legal_disputes) It would seem that Google's ranking would be similar to WestLaws pagination system and might be protected by copyright.