To John Kelly,
In America, information is not private and you can use what you read and learn. Copyright laws protect the design and method someone works up material. Do not copy any post here and attempt to sell it but the facts of information in it are not owned by anyone because they found them out and used them. Anyone can type up roster data in their own manner and then it is their work.
Under the new copyright laws (1971), anything you produce, even pencil notes, are protected from any use by anyone else until 75 years after your death. You can not exactly duplicate someone else's work without their approval but just add or subtract from it and design it different and reference the source and you are legal, and constructive to the learning process.
Under old copyright laws, protection was only 26 years and by request only, extended another 26 years one time. Prior to 1950, its now public domain. See the link for further details.