Dow Jones & Co. v. Bd. of Trade of City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that lists of ingredients aren’t subject to copyright protection, thus courts deny copyright protection to lists of ingredients on the labels of food products (citations omitted)
• discussing originality requirement and observing that copyrightable writings “do not include labels which simply designate or describe the articles to which they are attached and which have no value separate from the articles”
• Dow Jones’ selectivity in determining which stocks to list in its indexes made actual list of stocks copyrightable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).