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To build on this, factoids in general are not copyrightable. This was the linchpin of a pretty famous lawsuit that a writer of a popular trivia book, Fred Worth, brought against Trivial Pursuit since many of the questions from the first edition were directly derived from factoids in his book "The Trivia Encyclopedia".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trivia_Encyclopedia



Or the classic we learned in CS ethics class, Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

> ... a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States establishing that information alone without a minimum of original creativity cannot be protected by copyright.[1] In the case appealed, Feist had copied information from Rural's telephone listings to include in its own, after Rural had refused to license the information.

That's a US decision. The EU recognizes database rights, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right .




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