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Originally Posted by potter
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).
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Incorrect... it is illegal to take information from ANY database and reproduce it without permission from the maker of the database. Especially since these people not only user our descriptions (to which we simply have the intellectual properties since we wrote them), but the links in our database are selected from a lot of links. They're not random links. And this site is using the properties of that list and reproduces it on his own site. Which is simply illegal without our permission.
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Originally Posted by potter
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.
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In that case google is linking to your site...
the lawsuit we won was exactly the same scenario, someone copying links from our site and reusing them for his own site. We were the first to win such a lawsuit. Reproducing data has been illegal since a long time. We were the first to proof a list of links on a website is considered a database (not any collection can be considered a database). Legislation came from our lawsuit against that person. And we won. Successfully in this case meant he had to remove the links and pay our damage and the lawsuit we filed against him. So I would call that success..