Copywriting your phone number (Score 1)

In other world news I'm going to copyright my phone number! Unless someone can prove prior art, given the complete idiocy of our patent system I should be able to get away with it. Then under the DMCA, I can sue anyone attempting to use my number by calling it since they would be entering copyrighted material without my permission. Brilliant I tell you... =)

Nope. I thought of that a few weeks ago and spoke to a lawyer who specializes in information technology. I wanted to claim copyright on my e-mail address so I could use DMCA against owners of systems that get infected with klez and forge e-mail with my address in the From: header. Lawyer's response was you can't copyright "directory information". Precedent referred to was phone book entries.

Nice try, really, but it won't fly.