A list of pixel intensities and RGB values are only a creative work because they are a picture, it's the picture that's a creative work. Lists of numbers as su

A list of pixel intensities and RGB values are only a creative work because they are a picture, it's the picture that's a creative work. Lists of numbers as such are not generally copryightable in the USA. Note that "facts" aren't copyrightable in the US, regardless of how much effort or money was spent assembling them. Neither are algorithms or procedures as such.