I'm currently in programming school casting about for programming projects, and I had the idea of a giant searchable contradance database, where you can filter by move combination, etc.

My question: is this something people would be interested in having? Or does it run the risk of infringing on intellectual property, or shortchanging dance writers on book sales, etc.? (Obviously no dances would be included without the author's permission, but it may be that making a huge ton of dances freely available and searchable in one place online would be a death blow to published books of dances, or have some other negative effect I'm not foreseeing right now...)

Anyway: does anyone have any thoughts on this project?

Cheers,

Maia