question about copyright and code, is this legal?

[Jonathan Wilson]

IANAL but here are some examples of things that I think are things that the 
law was intended to protect:
1.A real-estate database with information on many different houses.
2.The database at e.g. amazon.com containing details about a whole bunch of 
books
3.A database containing details of flights and prices for many different 
alrlines
and etc

Individually, this information is probobly not something that deserves 
protection. But collectivly on the other hand...