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There's no license because it's facts and can't be copyrighted.
by flybayer 9y ago
There's no license because it's facts and can't be copyrighted.
- semi-extrinsic 9y agoFor the US, correct [1]. For other countries, YMMV. Edit: e.g. in the UK, sui generis rights apply to a database [2], such that if creation of a database required "substantial investment in obtaining, verifying or presenting the contents of the database" then someone else cannot copy it and re-publish in another form. This is very different from US law, which requires some "creative originality" to be involved. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._Rural_Telephone_Service_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right
- rambojazz 9y agoWould this also apply to a database such as IMDB, since movie information is just facts? So, like, I can crawl their website and make a public-domain database of movies/actors? This would be cool, since I'm not aware of any free database for movies/actors.