A journey through Feist.

The book gives an authoritative account of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Feist v. Rural 1991, which required databases to have a minimal degree of creativity to be copyrightable. The decision left creativity undefined, although it did extensively characterize the antithesis of creativity, and the decision has defied interpretation since its publication.

The book gives a detailed exegesis of the decision and correlates the antithesis to creativity with classic conceptions of computability. Creativity is then understood as non-computable human activity, above a certain level of routinicity.