> However if you collect all those uncopyrightable facts together into one database/collection, then that database/collection might be a copyrightable work. Tr

> However if you collect all those uncopyrightable facts together into one database/collection, then that database/collection might be a copyrightable work. True, if there is at least a modicum of "originality" in the selection and/or arrangement of the uncopyrightable facts. In the U.S. Supreme Court's Feist case,[1] the Court held that an alphabetical arrangement of names, etc., in the white pages of a phone directory did not include the requisite originality. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural