word lists

[Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>]

Folks,


let's assume that I take the first volume of `Harry Potter' and do the
following:

  . split the text into words, removing all non-words
  . remove all fictive names and places specific to the `Harry Potter'
    world
  . sort the words by frequency

as a result I get a word list of plain English words.

Now my questions:

  o Is such a list copyrighted?

  o Is it possible at all to assign a license to such a mechanically
    extracted list, given that the extraction script is a few lines of
    perl code, say?


    Werner