* database rights, which are similar to but distinct from copyright; in particular they last for only 15 years;
* copyright in a particular collection of public-domain things.
Case C-304/07 Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, which was about an anthology of poems, seems to have involved both things. See if you can make sense of it because I'm not sure I can!
* database rights, which are similar to but distinct from copyright; in particular they last for only 15 years;
* copyright in a particular collection of public-domain things.
Case C-304/07 Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, which was about an anthology of poems, seems to have involved both things. See if you can make sense of it because I'm not sure I can!