CDDB tug of war--users are the losers? It's fine that companies set up venues for gathering user-generated content, but it's not so fine that the companies want to claim ownership of the data. While that issue of ownership is perhaps a grey area, it's very clearly insideous to claim ownership of data you didn't even collect, especially without an explicit user agreement made before the data was entered. The nature of CDDB (where all that was entered was album and track titles) makes it a fancy example, but it's important for more obvious situations, like Usenet archives.