SOURCE ATTRIBUTION AND THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS NOTICE

This database is an unofficial transformation of version 3 of the “DC-MARVEL Comic Characters” dataset published by NIKHIL on Kaggle:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/nikhil1e9/comic-characters

Kaggle identifies that dataset as CC0 1.0. Its description states that it was cleaned and modified from the FiveThirtyEight Comic Characters Dataset. FiveThirtyEight makes its datasets available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 unless otherwise noted:
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/comic-characters

FiveThirtyEight attributes the original character data to Marvel Wikia and DC Wikia. Its documentation states that characters were scraped on August 24, 2014, appearance counts on September 2, 2014, and first-appearance dates on October 6, 2014. The source is historical and may contain errors, ambiguities, duplicate records, or information that is no longer current.

The CC0 and CC BY licenses apply only to rights their respective licensors were entitled to waive or license. They do not grant trademark, publicity, privacy, patent, or other third-party rights. DC, Marvel, character names, universe names, and related marks and properties belong to their respective rights holders. No affiliation with or endorsement by DC, Marvel, Warner Bros. Discovery, The Walt Disney Company, Fandom, FiveThirtyEight, Kaggle, or any other rights holder or source is claimed.

The database is provided as is, without warranties of accuracy, completeness, currency, title, non-infringement, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.
