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Well, many formats of telephone book are copyrightable, particularly the "yellow pages" portions, where selection and arrangement into categories are applied, meeting the "de minimis thought needed to withstand the originality requirement". http://www.copyright.gov/reports/dbase.html http://www.copyright.gov/reports/dbase.html Many other collections of pure fact will meet those criteria as well.