Can Word Lists be Copyrighted

https://www.google.com/#q=public+domain+english+word+list

2nd result quite relevant.

Could generate it, possibly like this: https://github.com/rspeer/wiki2text

Edit:
Applying this code to the example output from the wiki2text repo:


String input = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("text.txt")));
System.out.println(Arrays.stream(input.split("\\s+"))
    .filter(s -> s.matches("[a-zA-Z][a-z]*"))
    .map(s -> s.toLowerCase())
    .distinct()
    .sorted()
    .collect(Collectors.joining("\n")));

Yields the following: http://pastebin.java-gaming.org/90cc2436a2917

Could be useful.

Copyrights, Trademarks and patents are distinctly different things.