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Old 9th October 2011
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Even *I* know about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_P...ephone_Service

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Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991),[1] commonly called Feist v. Rural, is an important United States Supreme Court case establishing that information alone without a minimum of original creativity cannot be protected by copyright.
I don't see how a timezone database is different ...
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