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Originally Posted by potter
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?
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He is using our database and reproduces it. Just like I can copy stuff from a dictionary without permission, though the words in it are commonwealth. Just like I can't copy part of a book by Stephen King even though the words in there are not copyrighted. It's the collection - or database - that is copyrighted. They are copying our descriptions, which on it's own is a breach of intellectual properties, and they are reproducing our database.
The links in our database are not our property, but the database itself is.