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Originally Posted by The Hun
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.
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..
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To point #1. Not entirely, just because you have information stored in a database does not mean you "own" that information - you own the database (not necessarily the specific information in it). You know what I mean? For example, Amazon.com has a list of all the books written by Stephen King (which is stored in their database), that does not mean they own the RIGHTS to
lists of books written by Stephen King. If I go make a website that lists all the books written by Stephen King, Amazon.com can't sue me because they have that information in their database. Because they don't "own" that information simply because they have that information in their database.
To point #2 - I might be missing something here then, because I thought the site we were discussing was a search engine?