Just looking to see what you think. I plan on starting a site that is about movies, but I am not going to stream movies or anything. I am going to use all the information that the wikipedia has about the movies (public domain??) instead. This way I can get the search engine placements. Would that be illegal?
I don't think you will be banned for that but you will also not get good traffic. Also there is something known as fair use clause, you cant copy all the information of others as your own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License I think you need to do more reading.