Re:My point of view as a former server maintainer (Score 1)

Here is a more relevant link (PDF): http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/pubs /ic-ci/pubs/fulveren.pdf it

I agree that the tracknames and album names, maybe even the duration of each track are simply data. However the discid calculated by the freedb software, which is the core of the database (you can't match the disc with the right description without it) has a value-added and is specific to the database. So I thinlk stripping it (which does not seem the intent of the article poster) effectively isn't possible without reducing the relevance of the database.

Anyway all this is just opinions, an lawyer specialised in international copyright should be consulted on this.