Many websties owe their success to their ability to suck data from others, combine and reorganize them in a more efficient way. This leads to many questions. Some are legal – to which extent can you built a business on other’s material ? – and economical – what can be the value of such a venture ? This article explores the issue by taking interesting examples.
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