[Taxacom] ZooBank reality check: scanning and copyright

[Stephen C. Carlson]

At 03:15 PM 9/7/2006 -0700, Barry Roth wrote:
>The example is sometimes given that the fact of someone's phone number being 
>###-###-#### is not copyrightable, but the telephone directory is.

This example had been valid in some jurisdictions before 1991, but
the Supreme Court eventually ruled that a telephone directory lacked
a sufficient amount of creativity to be copyrightable in Feist
Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991).

Stephen Carlson, J.D. 
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