[mb-users] "The need for free and open music metadata", but MB not good enough

[Kuno Woudt]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:27:02PM +0100, Paul Taylor wrote:
> What I dont understand is can this guy just merge wikipedia and 
> musicbrainz data, I thought wikipedia used a different license which 
> prevented Musicbrainz from just automatically sucking in useful info it 
> did have.

The core data in musicbrainz is public domain.  And musicbrainz probably
cannot claim copyright on such a collection of data even if it wanted to.
The US doesn't have any database protection laws like we do in europe,
see http://www.iusmentis.com/databases/us/ for more details.

-- kuno / warp.