Legal Opinion
Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 27, 1991No. 89-1909PublishedCited by 2,689 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
This case requires us to clarify the extent of copyright protection available to telephone directory white pages.
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Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc., is a certified public utility that provides telephone service to several communities in northwest Kansas. It is subject to a state regulation that requires all telephone companies operating in Kansas to issue annually an updated telephone directory. Accordingly, as a condition of its monopoly franchise, Rural publishes a typical telephone directory, consisting of white pages and yellow pages. The white pages list in alphabetical order the…
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