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- Dates of birth, marriage, and death, along with the names are
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that information can be copyrighted.
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copyrighted.
- It is a "legal fact" that "facts" are not copyrightable, although
their arrangement in a manner other than alphabetical may be
copyrightable. "Facts" are not copyrightable - that is, they are
unprotectable elements - and the bulk of genealogical data is factual
vital-statistics data that reside in the public domain from the
beginning. They are not taken out of the public domain by being included
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