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| Found at http://www.imdb.com, the '''Internet Movie Database''' is an online database of information about movies, television shows, cartoons, and shorts. The IMDb has an extensive amount of information on works, including basic details such as actors and directors, as well as more esoteric information such as trivia, soundtrack listings, aspect ratios, and alternate versions. Any person with an e-mail account and a browser that accepts cookies can set up an account, then submit information and vote on works. | |||
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| Though it started as a leisure project of a few movie enthusiasts, it was bought by Amazon.com, who owns the copyright | |||
| of the information contained there, so it is ''not'' a source for | |||
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| Though it started as a leisure project of a few movie enthusiasts, it was bought by Amazon.com, who now owns and enforces its ]s. It can be used as a source of information about movies that you can include in Misplaced Pages articles, but care should be taken not to copy any actual text from the site or use its ratings or selection criteria. See '']'' for more details about collection cropyrights. | |||
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| They don't own the copyright on the information itself--just the way it is collected and presented. You can't cut and paste, you can't use their descriptions, but you can certainly use it as a source of information about who did what and when. See USSC '']'' ] | |||
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| Could you elaborate on '']''? I don't even know where to begin to search for that information. Also, how would you modify the previous paragraph to make it correct? | |||
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Found at http://www.imdb.com, the Internet Movie Database is an online database of information about movies, television shows, cartoons, and shorts. The IMDb has an extensive amount of information on works, including basic details such as actors and directors, as well as more esoteric information such as trivia, soundtrack listings, aspect ratios, and alternate versions. Any person with an e-mail account and a browser that accepts cookies can set up an account, then submit information and vote on works.
Though it started as a leisure project of a few movie enthusiasts, it was bought by Amazon.com, who now owns and enforces its copyrights. It can be used as a source of information about movies that you can include in Misplaced Pages articles, but care should be taken not to copy any actual text from the site or use its ratings or selection criteria. See Feist v. Rural for more details about collection cropyrights.