a series of mergers, the original seven have become BellSouth, QuestDex, SBC, and Verizon. The RBOCs generally did not continue to operate their directory publishing businesses as part of their regulated telephone operations, but instead created separate publishing subsidiaries. These RBOC-affiliated directory publishers continued to dominate the industry. One reason for this was that the RBOCs did not make access to directory listings available to independent publishers on terms consistent with those on which they were made available to their own publishing affiliates. A series of legal challenges to this practice helped to even the playing field for independent publishers. See, e.g., Feist Publ. Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 363, 111 S.Ct. 1282, 113 L.Ed.2d 358 (1991) (<HOLDING>); Great Western Directories, Inc. v.
holding that telephone users have no expectation of privacy in dialed telephone numbers because they voluntarily expose such information to the service provider holding that a telephone companys white pages lack the requisite originality for copyright protection where the telephone company merely published basic subscriber information  name town and telephone number  and arranged it alphabetically based on surnames holding that names towns and telephone numbers of utilitys subscribers are not entitled to copyright protection holding that a customer has no reasonable expectation of privacy in dialed telephone numbers which were conveyed to the telephone company holding that that choices as to selection and arrangement are entitled to copyright protection only so long as they are made independently