<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by chalf:
My limited understanding of copyright law is that a compilation of information can be copyrighted.</font>
This is correct. If it wasn't, then books based on other sources - such as biographies - could be copyrighted.
Also, consider the frequent flier information you see in newspapers. Is any of that news to you? Most of it isn't because you've read it elsewhere - somtimes in FT forums.