Chief Justice Keane was convinced by the respondents argument that the White and Yellow Pages “were compiled, not by the individuals engaged to facilitate the process, but by a computerised process of storing, selecting, ordering and arranging the data to produce the directories in the form in which they were published.” [7-8]
See Australian Copyright Council note
For the full decision, see http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCAFC/2010/149.html