Does this qualify as unique content?

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Ramirez

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I am starting a blog about movies, games, trailers etc. If I have a page on my site "Pacific Rim" which contains the following text copied directly from IMDb

As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

... I assume that page will not rank since it contains nothing but duplicate content. So I have 2 choices. I can completely re-write that text, or I can augment it with something like this:

Coming soon is a new release from acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro. Unsurprisingly the budget is huge and we have high expectations. Read below for the official synopsis:

As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

Click here for the official trailer.

Will this help?

What if I wrap the copied synopsis in an HTML blockquote, to indicate "this text is copied and I am not trying to claim it as mine" ?

 

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royserpa

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• Jul 10, 2013

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Best bet is to rewrite the whole thing AND spin it by sentence level, then on word level.

 

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Ramirez

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Ok, and then just to be sure I will have it proof read by a professional linguist.

 

BacklinksRadar

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I agree, its best to stay safe and rewrite it. If you have a small percentage of copied content (5-10%), it shouldn't be an issue I think.

 

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Ramirez

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I have over 1000 pages scraped from IMDb, so it's a huge task to re-write all of them.

There are dozens of big sites, like Metacritic, that use the same promo text (unmodified as handed out by Warner Bros), and they don't have problems. I thought if that text only constitutes 5-10% of the page content maybe I can get away with it.

 

Don Carlito

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• Jul 11, 2013

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just give them a link back to original post/article
but you never outrank imdb.com

or outsourcing a 200-300 word articles is an option

 

loudINMedia

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Rewriting content by yourself is a great strategy always when you are going for something long term thing.
Better to understand, someone has worked hard on it & they will not let it go just by copying it.

 

saber210

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Your second example is called content curration.

Search more about content curration, some site using it effectively.