IMDb

Database of films, television and the people who make them. It began in October 1990 as fan lists on the rec.arts.movies newsgroup, became a company in 1996 and was bought by Amazon in 1998; its data is proprietary, released only for non-commercial use, yet other databases link to its title and name IDs. [?]

Explore it ↗ imdb.com

Part of the thread Who owns what the crowd built? precedent

maintained by

• Amazon organization 1994 (1998) [src]

alternative to

• The Movie Database project 2008 [src]

founded by

• Col Needham person b. 1967 [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• description: How widely other databases rely on IMDb IDs is not quantified here; Wikidata, for one, records them.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb
• https://data.imdb.com/non-commercial-datasets/
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37312