SEO duplicate contents question: Are site listings considered duplicated contents?

My intention is to create local listings for all bowling spots all across the world. If I copy/paste short descriptive paragraphs from their websites and add them to my site, would this be considered duplicated contents. Actually, the entire site will be just a copy/paste collection of contents. What could be the implication for my pagerank

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Would a company going in for GDRs or ADRs when already listed in local exchange be considered a SEO?

Lets say there is a company ‘XYZ’ which is already listed in local exchange ‘A’ in the country ‘alpha’. Now company decides to go for fresh equity infusion and it has 3 options as following.
1. Listing the company in the same country ‘Alpha’ and in the same exchange.
2. Listing the company in the same country ‘Alpha’ but in the different exchange ‘B’
3. Listing the company in the different country and the different exchange. . .

Would we consider each one of these options as SEO or just the first one as SEO?

Any help is highly appreciated. . . A document on the same would be of great help.

Thanks
Amit

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