question about copyright and code, is this legal?

[Troy Rollo]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:11, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> 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

Yes. The original example used in the UK Parliament when the rule was 
introduced was of railway schedule publication.