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Internet Hockey Database Usage Rules Usage Rules Access to hockeydbcom by a web crawler or bot with the purpose of capturing the content is expressly prohibited If you are accessing this site using a automated query program robot web crawler or similar device you may also be treading on thin legal turf Proceed with caution When I find out that you are doing this the machine you access from will be denied access More consequences may followFacts cannot be copyrighted There is even some question if large compilations of information like this database can be copyrighted I ask people to treat this site with some respect and intelligence Please feel free to use information here but dont use it in a way that competes with this siteCopying large portions of hockeydbcom to provide a service that directly competes with hockeydbcom is prohibited under unfair competition misappriation tort law The law establishes three testsHas the plaintiff made a substantial investment (time money effort) in the product being copied for the record I have spent over ten years and over $100000 compiling the information on hockeydbcom so Id say this is substantial Has the defendant approrpriated the property at little or no cost writing a script to download hockeydbcom would likely qualify Is the defendents use of the property directly affecting the plaintiff either by diverting profits or making the plaintiffs product less desirable setting up a similar site even if nonprofit or releasing the data into the public domain would qualifyI simply ask that you be smart Dont take too much Dont compete with me Dont do something that will put me out of business If you use the information here give me credit Dont try to pass this information as your own work If you use a good amount of information please link back to this siteA good usage of the information here would be to trace the history of the old AHA A bad usage of the information here would be setting up a site that archives NHL logosIf you want to post someones career stats dont even bother asking Ill always say yes to something as trivial as that Mention the site if its appropriateAnd so Im not a hypocrite realize that I have used thousands of sources to compile this site take a look at where I got my information on the credits pageRegarding hockey logos you may think that since a logo was never copyrighted that it is in the public domain so you can take the image file presented on this site and use it however you want This is wrong My scans of these logos are a derivative work since they are transforming the logos into another medium These image files are protected by copyright law even though the original logo is in the public domain Although you are free to copy the logo from an original source you are not free to copy my image filesI suggest you read this article before freely copying and distribu...