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96ukssob · 11-09-2009, 08:28 PM

First, yes I am aware I need to speak to an attorney regarding this, but trying to find the right direction in who to go to before I have to fork out money in legal fees.

My biz partner and I built a type of sports "search engine" from content (all text) that we bought from two different sources. The first source is all statistics, the second is descriptive text about events - about 3-5 sentences.

My concern is that with the descriptive text, the person who sold it to us may not have the rights to resell the content as he said he did (probably can't really hold someone from another country legally liable). Of course we are using the content on our site to drawl traffic and make money on the ad space and advertisements; i.e. commercial use

I've taken a few of the descriptions and looked them up on google and see word for word listed on a few other sites, and those sites are not owned by the same person/company (i looked it up on whois.net). I'm guessing this may have came from all the same source, but with my luck, I dont want a lawsuit slapped on my door from some company claiming to be the owner and suing us for copyright infringement or worse.

We are not charging people to view the content, they can see it all for free. I know this is almost the same as tube sites in our industry, but im looking to make sure everything is 100% legit. Displaying this content is NOT taking away revenue from charging to see the content like videos are to tube sites.

So any thoughts on this and what type of attorney, if any, should we talk to about this?

My only thought would be to make a clear link on the site saying the content is not our own and came from 3rd party sources.

11-09-2009, 08:28 PM
96ukssob So Fucking Banananananas Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: If I was in your ass you'd know it Posts: 12,991	Legal question about (text) content First, yes I am aware I need to speak to an attorney regarding this, but trying to find the right direction in who to go to before I have to fork out money in legal fees. My biz partner and I built a type of sports "search engine" from content (all text) that we bought from two different sources. The first source is all statistics, the second is descriptive text about events - about 3-5 sentences. My concern is that with the descriptive text, the person who sold it to us may not have the rights to resell the content as he said he did (probably can't really hold someone from another country legally liable). Of course we are using the content on our site to drawl traffic and make money on the ad space and advertisements; i.e. commercial use I've taken a few of the descriptions and looked them up on google and see word for word listed on a few other sites, and those sites are not owned by the same person/company (i looked it up on whois.net). I'm guessing this may have came from all the same source, but with my luck, I dont want a lawsuit slapped on my door from some company claiming to be the owner and suing us for copyright infringement or worse. We are not charging people to view the content, they can see it all for free. I know this is almost the same as tube sites in our industry, but im looking to make sure everything is 100% legit. Displaying this content is NOT taking away revenue from charging to see the content like videos are to tube sites. So any thoughts on this and what type of attorney, if any, should we talk to about this? My only thought would be to make a clear link on the site saying the content is not our own and came from 3rd party sources. __________________ Email: Clicky on Me Last edited by 96ukssob; 11-09-2009 at 08:31 PM..