Problem: The Plaintiff in this case seeks copyright protection for its directory of political donors. The most fundamental axiom of copyright law is that no author may copyright his ideas or the facts he narrates. Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises, 471 U.S. 539 (1985]. At the same time, however, it is beyond dispute that compilations of facts are within the subject matter of copyright. 17 U.S.C. §103(a) provides that the subject matter of copyright includes compilations, but that copyright protects only the author's original contributions, not the facts of information conveyed.