Wikipedia: History of Internet Movie Database

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Though it started as a leisure project of a few movie enthusiasts, it was bought by Amazon.com, who now owns and enforces its copyrights. It can be used as a source of information about movies that you can include in Wikipedia articles, but care should be taken not to copy any actual text from the site or use its ratings or selection criteria. See Feist v. Rural for more details about collection copyrights.

Though it started out as a collection of [Shell scripts]? created by [Col Needham]? in 1990, it was eventually bought by Amazon.com, who now owns and enforces its copyrights. It can be used as a source of information about movies that you can include in Wikipedia articles, but care should be taken not to copy any actual text from the site or use its ratings or selection criteria. See Feist v. Rural for more details about collection copyrights.

	Revision 11 . . September 28, 2001 8:26 am by Mincus [added the date that it was started and its creator.]
	Revision 10 . . (edit) August 5, 2001 7:23 am by Koyaanis Qatsi [I see no reason to link to a page that simply redirects to the page you are on already, though the redirect may be useful from other pages :-)]