Editing Database right (section)

===United States===
Uncreative collections of facts are outside of Congressional authority under the [[Copyright Clause]] (Article I, § 8, cl. 8) of the United States Constitution, therefore no database right exists in the United States.  Originality is the ''[[sine qua non]]'' of copyright in the United States (''see [[Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service]]''). This has not stopped database owners lobbying for the introduction of such a right, but so far bills to introduce it in the US have been prevented by the successful lobbying of research libraries, consumer groups and firms who benefit from the free use of factual information.<ref name="merges-2000">
{{cite journal
 | last1 = Merges | first1 = Robert P
 | title = One hundred years of solicitude: intellectual property law, 1900–2000
 | date = 2000
 | journal = California Law Review
 | volume = 88
 | issue = 6
 | pages = 2187–2240
 | doi =  10.2307/3481215
| jstor = 3481215
 | url = http://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1117293
 | url-access = subscription
 }}
</ref>