Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Texas
I want to start a job search engine website (similar to well-known job postings aggregators like linkup.com) that will index and aggregate job postings from employers career pages. Aggregating involves parsing (copying) job postings and re-posting them on my website - very much like to what google.com or indeed.com does.
Most websites include a " Copyright � 2013 All rights reserved" message and expressions like: "The content of this website is property of ...and is protected by copyright laws" - in their Terms of use.
The source of the posting will be mentioned and users will redirected to the original page.
Can this be considered a "fair use" of the job postings by a specialized job search engine?
Are job postings considered to be copyrighted materials?
Is it legal to re-post the entire job posting or just a part of it?
Looking forward for you answer,
Kind regards,
Christian
1 Answer from Attorneys
That is likely copyright infringement unless you just list facts and not the content. Deep linking to the original listing might solve your problem.
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