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PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE CO., 499 U.S. 340
(1991)
O'CONNOR, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST,
C. J., and WHITE, MARSHALL, STEVENS, SCALIA, KENNEDY, and SOUTER, JJ.,
joined. BLACKMUN, J., concurred in the judgment.
[18] This inevitably means that the copyright in a factual compilation
is thin. Notwithstanding a valid copyright, a subsequent compiler
remains free to use the facts contained in an another's publication to
aid in preparing a competing work, so long as the competing work does
not feature the same selection and arrangement. As one commentator
explains it: "No matter how much original author****p the work
displays, the facts and ideas it exposes are free for the taking . . .
.. The very same facts and ideas may be divorced from the context
imposed by the author, and restated or reshuffled by second comers,
even if the author was the first to discover the facts or to propose
the ideas." Ginsburg 1868.
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> Brad Hoggatt
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