Would 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 o

Would 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.