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See Feist vs. Rural Telephone Company for an example case of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._Rural_Telephone_Service_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... For all intents and purposes it states that factual information by itself cannot be copyrighted.