DATABASE

database. A compilation of information arranged in a systematic way and offering a means of finding specific  elements  it contains,  often  today  by  electronic  means.  •  Unless  the  information itself is original, a database is not protected by U.S. copyright law. Elsewhere, it may be protected as a distinct class of “literary works,” or it may be the subject of sui generis intellectual-property laws.  See  SWEAT-OF-THE-BROW  DOCTRINE.  [Cases:  Copyrights  and  Intellectual  Property   12(3).] [Blacks Law 8th]