[mb-style] RFC: Torrents as Releases (Was: Billboard's "top whatever")

Jason Bouwmeester jbouwmeester at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 18:10:36 UTC 2006


> It is one thing for a commercially available album or concert tracklist
> or something which is merely documenting public information, but the
> order of tracks in the Billboard charts are considered (at least by
> Billboard and their lawyers) to be proprietary, not based entirely
> on sales figures.  This is especially true of anything other than the
> weekly charts.
>
> >From http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/about_us/faq.jsp#bbcom1

True based on the FAQ, but aren't we providing a listing of a
COMPILATION of songs and not just reiterating the list somewhere else?
There are actually compilations/collections BASED on the Billboard
lists.



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