Re: Copyright and Syndication

[stephen.downes@ualberta.ca]

--- In syndication@egroups.com, Aaron Swartz <aswartz@s...> wrote:
> Actually, if I recall correctly, there's something like a 
"collection
> copyright" that allows you to copyright the collection of publicly 
available
> data. It's used to cover things like the phone book, where the 
individual
> information is not copyrighted (it's just names and phone numbers) 
but cost
> was put into the collection and organization of the information.

Telephone book information is not copyrightable.
U.S. Supreme Court - FEIST PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. RURAL TEL. SERVICE 
CO., 499 U.S. 340 (1991) 
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=499&invol=3
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