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West, seeking to prevent the necessary information from being available other than through their expensive service, used to claim that the pagination and page numbers were copyrighted, but a Federal court ruled against them. The court said that these page numbers don't result from creativity, so they are not copyrightable. But they are indubitably a data base, so HR 354 would prohibit anyone else from providing this data to the public &mdash; thus granting West a permanent monopoly on the law itself.