Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that phone book listings are not copyrightable even though the listings contained four fictitious listings that the plaintiff included for infringement detection purposes
• explaining that section 102(b) is \universally understood to prohibit any copyright in facts\
• “Presumably the vast majority of compilations will pass this test, but not all will.”
• “Not all copying ... is copyright infringement.”
• stating elements of copyright infringement action

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