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[cc-licenses] Does data mining count as creating a derivative work?

From: "Bradley Skaggs" <bradley.skaggs AT gmail.com>
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Subject: [cc-licenses] Does data mining count as creating a derivative work?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:11:52 -0400

I want to create a TV show recommendation engine. For it, I need lots and lots of information about TV shows. Fortuntely, there exists a wiki with the exact facts I need: <http://tviv.org/ > It's under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Here's my question: I want to do data mining on this wiki to generate a database (for example, a list of links between TV show articles, and the category of the articles, but not the content of the articles) to create a database of related TV shows. The database would back a website that, when you enter one or more tv show names, would generate a list of others you might like. Would this be considered sufficiently different that I could sell this service for a fee? Could I sell my database? Could I make this service free, but make the site ad-supported?

I appreciate your thoughts!

--Brad

[cc-licenses] Does data mining count as creating a derivative work?, Bradley Skaggs, 10/16/2006
- Re: [cc-licenses] Does data mining count as creating a derivative work?, Terry Hancock, 10/16/2006