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  • Top Engineering Colleges In India (history · last edit) from [9] (viewing requires subscription; the article itself points to the link). From the Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service case: "In regard to collections of facts, O'Connor states that copyright can only apply to the creative aspects of collection: the creative choice of what data to include or exclude, the order and style in which the information is presented, etc., but not on the information itself. If Feist were to take the directory and rearrange them it would destroy the copyright owned in the data.". The names or the list of the colleges are not copyright by Outlook, but the creative choices Outlook made in producing a ranking are copyrightable by them. The ranking is a creative invention of theirs—they did not simply publish the names of schools as in a directory. The users who placed this list on Wikipedia under GFDL did not "take the [list] and rearrange" it: the entire list is simply reproduced verbatim, and even indicates in the title that the list belongs to Outlook. It is not legal to take their list—published in their commercial magazine and website—and simply publish it on Wikipedia under GFDL. utcursch | talk 11:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]