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Originally Posted by The Hun
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.
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Ok... So you're saying. If I go out right now, and build a webpage that is a list of 20 links to sites I like, various sites all over the world (that I don't own).
Then I OWN the rights to that list of 20 sites, and I can sue anyone who creates a list of those 20 sites for copyright infringement?
Right? That's basically what you are saying.
Even better, what if I have a database of one link to google from ages ago (before google was even made let's say). Are you saying I can go sue everyone who has ever linked to google because they are copying or "duplicating" my database?
