FEIST PUBLICATIONS, INC. V. RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE CO. INC.
499 U.S. 340 (1991)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over copyright protection for telephone white
pages.
FACTS: Rural (P) publishes a mandatory telephone directory consisting of white pages and
yellow pages. Feist (D) is a publishing company that makes a wide area directory that covers
significantly more territory than the P directory. Both P and D distribute their directories
for free. D gets its telephone information by paying telephone companies to use their
information contained therein. P was the only company that did not allow D access to its
telephone directory information. D then decided to use P's directory without approval and D
made an effort to gather more information about P's listings but nonetheless 1,309 of the
listings in D's directory were direct copies of the P directory including four fictitious
listings that P used to detect copying. P sued for copyright infringement. Summary judgment
was granted to P. D appealed. The Supreme Court granted certiorari.
ISSUE:
RULE OF LAW:
HOLDING AND DECISION:
LEGAL ANALYSIS:
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