The U.S. Copyright Office has long accepted claims of registration based on the selection, coordination, or arrangement of uncopyrightable elements, because the Copyright Act specifically states that copyrightable authorship includes compilations. The term "compilation" is defined in the Copyright Act: This definition's inclusion of the terms "preexisting material" or "data" suggest that individually uncopyrightable elements may be compiled into a copyrightable whole. The legislative history of the 1976 Copyright Act supports this interpretation, stating that a compilation The Court stated: