copyright internet website database data
How to legally distribute the data of all Internet websites?
<p>We are a humble startup that's very good at Internet crawling and data mining. Unfortunately after 2 years of struggling, we may soon fail. </p>

<p>We have lots of data and we want to release them free before we go under. However as our data collections are so massive, downloading from our servers won't be a good option. Even P2P downloading would cost massive amount of bandwidth and time. It's much more efficient to just send the data in storage devices such as USB drives or discs to the users.</p>

<p>As you can see from <a href="https://datasn.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, we currently have 1,287 web sites crawled and mined with all their data semantically extracted and constantly updated in our cloud. An example data set from one of the sites is like <a href="http://n3.datasn.io/data/api/v1/n3zm/recipe_2/main/list/?app=html-bunker" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>, well structured with both texts and images.</p>

<p>Eventually we would have hundreds of thousands or even millions of websites collected. We would have PBs of data in our cloud which we will need to distribute to the fellow users.</p>

<p>We have to charge for a fee for this, e.g. for the storage devices and shipping, etc.</p>

<p>We are not merchandising the data which are not copyrighted by us, of course, but we have to charge a fee for all other things that went into it. And we will properly attribute each data set to the original website.</p>

<p>My question is can we do this legally? Is it possible at all to distribute all the data of the Internet this way?</p>

<p>You want to sell or distribute Intellectual Property owned by other entities?  Depending on the jurisdiction it's likely that you will need permission from the IP owner.</p>
