Here's an email I got from the Business Development associate at VNU Media:
Please tell the appropriate person at Wikepedia to contact me as soon as
possible. As Sam noted, the current use of our content on your site is not
permissible without a licensing agreement. Therefore we would like to
resolve the issue quickly. Thanks again for bringing this to our
attention.
Best,
Ben
Ben French
Associate, Business Development
VNU eMedia, Inc.
770 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Phone: (646) 654-5593 / Fax: (646) 654-5589
On 11/15/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/14/05, Brandon Cordy <b.touch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, all. I'm a Wikipedia editor who uses the
login "FuriousFreddy".
There
were some questions raised over the legality of
the inclusion of data
from
the American Billboard music charts, since the
company that owns
Billboard
(VNU Media) claims copyright and ownership of the
chart information. I
sent
them an email several weeks ago...and they
finally got back to answering
it.
What does this mean for the Wikipedia music articles which include
Billboard
charts?
Absolutely nothing. The mere fact that album X reached position Y on
the Billboard charts is a raw fact and cannot be copyrighted.
Billboard, like so many other companies, likes to claim a broader
scope of intellectual property rights than they are entitled to.
Kelly
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