Aggregating and organizing public knowledge is a fundamentally valuable action which many companies make their business off of. If I create a website for track

Aggregating and organizing public knowledge is a fundamentally valuable action which many companies make their business off of. If I create a website for tracking real estate trends in my area — which is public information — should I not be able to sell that information? Similarly if a consulting company analyzes public market macro trends are they not allowed to sell that information? Just because the information which is being aggregated and organized is public does not necessarily mean that the output product should be in the public.