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> Are words copyrightable

Have you literally never heard of text being copyright?

I think there's a little more work involved into writing a book than into randomly shuffling a list of words.

How do you think people copyright crosswords and word searches?

First guess: they shouldn't be able to? For life plus 70 years, really?

Second guess: crosswords have sufficient creative work involved. A list of random English words with 5 characters?

Seems to be very successful and valuable for something without ‘sufficient creative work involved’? That’s what the courts would look at.

The wordle game is successful. The list of words is an entirely separate question.