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Originally Posted by michel
Second, our database is copyright protected. Third, this goes further than stealing just the links. All our handmade descriptions are on that site as well. Building a site out of our links is illegal and has been taken to court succesfully in the past.
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You might have your database copyright protected, but that doesn't make it illegal for someone else to create a list of TGP pages that your site links to. A database as a whole with it's specific information architecture and structure is something that can be copyrighted, a list of public information cannot be copyrighted.
There is no such thing as stealing links. A web page exists on it's own, anyone and everyone can link to it if they choose. No one "owns" the sole right to link to something. Someone can't make a html page and say "Tim over there is the only person allowed to link to this page, no one else is allowed to". That's not how it works.
You might have something with the handmade descriptions, but even that is questionable - If I search my sites in google, google displays text/titles/descriptions from my sites.
I don't think you're lying on winning some lawsuit, but I have to question it's comparison and what the actual outcome was ("successfully" doesn't exactly state you won by statute of copyright law).