"For example, a recipe is a process, and not copyrightable, but the words used to describe it are; see Publications International v Meredith Corp. (1996).[2] Th

"For example, a recipe is a process, and not copyrightable, but the words used to describe it are; see Publications International v Meredith Corp. (1996).[2] Therefore, you can rewrite a recipe in your own words and publish it without infringing copyrights. But if you rewrote every recipe from a particular cookbook, you might still be found to have infringed the author's copyright in the choice of recipes and their "coordination" and "presentation", even if you used different words" So, facts are not copyrighted, but the way facts are presented are copyrighted. I still find it hard to believe that what this person had been doing is legal. What is the difference between the scraping he does and copying the phone directory and selling it on. In fact that is not a fair comparision since the wikepidia article suggests that the fone directory was legaly obliged to list these businesses while an individual or google and yahoo are not legaly obliged to enter every business in their directory. In this regard then the choice of information that these directories have made makes their directories copyrighted perhaps.