IMDb has NO legal right to your personal and film business data.

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How can imdb collect and control data, which makes a profit for imdb, and returns NOTHING to the filmmakers?  HOW, at the request of a filmmaker who's film was never released to the public (film festivals should not count as they are a useless exploits of non commercial films) how, can he/she not have the film removed from the IMDb database?  How is it that imdb has never been sued for DMCA violations?  I for one am on the same journey to get my unreleased films out of the imdb database and I will never stop until I die. I am in process of talking to 3 lawyers, 2 of which are very interested in suing imdb.  Imdb is a pompous company run by the same type of people that so desire to be in the film industry, but have no talent to pull it off.  So they sit around, collecting data from people that actually work for a living and make money off of them.  IMDB is nothing but a group of pimps making money off of filmmakers.  

Oh, and PLEASE NOTE IMDB:  My "policy" is if somebody takes my personal information and my business information and posts it in their website, without my persmission, they are looking at one big class action lawsuit. You can bet on it. So don't waste your time copying and pasting your "stock reply" to this post, because we've all read them before.  IMDb, your day is coming.  You can not illegally post information in any form, without expressed permission.  You have no legal right and your "terms of service" are meaningless. You are NOT a government agency and you do not serve the public with your data collection, you only serve yourself, with undisclosed profits.  Again, your day is coming.
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Steve please discontinue spamming this site over multiple topics with the same replies.


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Please use this method to directly contact IMDb about your issues

https://help.imdb.com/contact

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That’s not working. It’s been five days, I contacted the IMDb service. They didn’t have do anything.
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Ed Jones(XLIX)

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Timmy PLEASE.
That reply was not for you.
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Pilgrim Prod

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That’s not working. How people can do to add/remove stuff from IMDb?
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Hi, Pilgrim Prod. If you have a copyright complaint, and there has been no rectification via the online contact method, please see the information found at https://www.imdb.com/conditions.
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Hello, my only complaint is I want someone from IMDb staff complete the casting of my recent movie. For days, I can’t add anything.
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Well, that is what GS topic "Please STOP removing people from the casting" is for (rather than this one), I suppose.
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Hi, Steve James. Expressions of your concerns regarding this matter, should you not mind that they be public, belong either only in this thread or some other forum altogether. So, please do not shoehorn the complaints into unrelated topics or stale topics here. It would also be nice if you refrained from defamation and also diligently avoided spreading misconceptions. You claim there is no legal right to do this-or-that, but yet you've not cited the statute, treaty, regulation or past court decision that prohibits a particular thing. Until you do, you're wasting our time. You've not specified which "Steve James" you are, and for privacy reasons, it is possible that you do not want to do that, which would mean that you complain belongs on the secure channel referenced earlier by Ed. Otherwise, please give a dog a bone by presenting some more information about condition affecting you or your business, and we will see if it is possible at all the mend what you consider to be a problem.
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First IMDB, DID NOT violate the DMCA. If you had an attorney at all they would have told you this.
DMCA Covers proprietary info (Script). That would also cover the display of the item (Film) in question, which did not happen. The film was not played on IMDb for viewing. All IMDb did was report the showing which was done by a submission by someone else (Contributor) to the database that knows the data to be true.
Sorry but as Jeorj stated you have provided nothing that constitutes any wrongdoing. Nothing.....
Your example is weak at best.
IMDb has been doing this a long time.
They are just like a news organization that reports facts. That's all.
IMDb is covered, just like any news organization, by the First Amendment.
And it does not matter if you are outside the US.
In IMDb's terms of service there are notifications that are a matter of public record as to it's location of origin and the laws of that state that apply.
In conclusion, you have no legal argument as a basis for the filing of any reliefs granted under any known statutes.

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Do you have a film posted in the IMDb ?

I only want to hear from people that have films posted in the IMDb.  The rest of you are just bored human beings with nothing else to do but weigh in on a subject matter that doesn't concern you.  To those people I say, get a life.
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Well that may be so. But I doubt it. This is one of those kind of persons that are not satisfied unless the can get their way. They have no concept of "NO"
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Most people in the world only ever want to hear from people who continually provide re-enforcement of a "view", "bias" or "identity", but yet many of most are shrewd enough not to alienate polite people who for one reason or another would not be able to sympathize. O, wow, I feel like I'm turning into the forum psychologist/sociologist. We've encountered enough adversaries of IMDb on this forum to spot a pattern among disparate "identities". People won't come together when they are not looking out for the fellow person who belongs to a different "identity", and that just amplifies the extent to which they gain no traction in those times and contexts in which they are in dispute with TPTB.
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Psycho-what? I don't get the gist.
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Jeorj Euler

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Path :P
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O-Logical