Yeah this is similar to how facts are not copyrightable, but data is. You can't just extract rows out of a data file one-by-one, into a variable named "just_a_f

Yeah this is similar to how facts are not copyrightable, but data is. You can't just extract rows out of a data file one-by-one, into a variable named "just_a_fact", put it back into a new file and pretend that you didn't derive it from the original. Courts are not dumb. Trying to scale up a technicality to circumvent the law usually does not fly.