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IIRC, what is protected for compilations (aside from any copyright that may adhere in any given work included in the compilation - that copyright belongs to the creator of that work, and not the creator of the compilation) is the selection and arrangement (and possibly coordination in the U.S.) of the included works.

This is different from the structure, sequence, and organisation of computer programmes, which is also protected. I'm not sure if the protection of SSO applies to works that are not computer programmes in the U.S..

It's important to keep these concepts separate as they really are different things, although conceptually similar as they are kinds of what are called "non-literal elements" which are protected by copyright.

There seems to have been quite a bit of confusion about what is protected in each case here over the past few days.

There also seems to have been an assumption by the court and some of the lawyers that the API was somehow a computer programme and protectable that way, thus all the talk of SSO.

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