Comment by thephyber
2 hours ago
You do realize that US IP law does work that way, right?
You can have a copyright of a collection of facts even if you don't have a copyright of each individual fact in the collection.
2 hours ago
You do realize that US IP law does work that way, right?
You can have a copyright of a collection of facts even if you don't have a copyright of each individual fact in the collection.
You've mixed up your context here. Web pages are not generally "facts" under US copyright law, and redistributing them from a database doesn't turn them into facts, nor does it engage the normal "collection of facts" (aka database) rules about US copyright. And even if the webpages were "facts", the only part of "collections of facts" that gets copyright protection is the creative part. Which can't be the plain content of the facts.