The phone book is an excellent example, because rather famously[1] at one point a powerful company tried to use IP laws to prevent someone from forking the actual phone book... and the US Supreme Court ruled that it WAS permitted. That precedent does not apply to this case which is based on different laws preventing access to the data not preventing contacting it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....