not copyrightable. See 17 U.S.C. § 102(b) (providing that no copyright protection for an original work of authorship extends to any “idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work”). However, even ignoring these erroneously identified acts of selection, coordination, or arrangement, BAPCO’s other acts of selection and arrangement in compiling the 198k Yellow Pages were sufficient originality to merit copyright protection under Feist. A Selection of Classified Headings The clearest example of BAPCO’s original selection is its choice of the classified headings that would be included in the 1984 Yellow Pages. Accord Key Publications, 945 F.2d at 514 (<HOLDING>). BAPCO selected the approximate 7,000
holding that the outcome of the case could have been different if the trial court had imposed the appropriate burden holding that a publishers selection of 260 different categories even if including particular categories that have been used in other directories involved sufficient creativity to contribute to the overall originality of a classified directory recognizing copyrightability of specialty directory but concluding no infringement by smaller competing publication that utilized significantly different principles of listing selection holding that even in separate trial other crimes evidence would not have been admissible and identification testimony would have been admissible holding that the term individual in the torture victim protection act meant natural person but reiterating that courts should respect congress decision to use different terms to describe different categories of people or things citation omitted