Feist comprehensively rejected that argument under US copyright law, and the attempts in the late 90s to pass a law in response establishing a sui generis prohi

Feist comprehensively rejected that argument under US copyright law, and the attempts in the late 90s to pass a law in response establishing a sui generis prohibition on copying databases also failed in the US. The EU did adopt a directive to that effect, which may be why there are no significant European search engines. However, OpenAI and Google are far more politically influential than the lobbyists in the 90s, so it is likely to succeed.