Is it illegal to copy job postings for growth?
I'm working on a job board for customer facing engineering roles (sales engineers, solutions engineer, partner engineer)
Before launching, I want to seed the job board with 100 postings to help build traffic.
Is it illegal to copy these from other company's sites job openings page?
Disclaimer: Every legal situation is different and this response should not be taken as legal advice.
Job postings typically have two copyrights: a copyright on the listings -- the words and expression of the listing -- and a compilation copyright for the database. As long as you're not using the entirety of someone's database, you're not likely to infringe on the compilation copyright. (70% or less has been ruled ok)
As for copying the listing itself, the more expressive or unique the writing in the listing is, the harder it is to justify copying the complete listing. Any job listing without originality is primarily a collection of uncopyrightable facts so as long as you avoid anything too creative you'll be fine.
Other things to watch out for:
-Make sure the listings are not discriminatory
-Don't pull from a website that has an End-User License Agreement
This is helpful. Thank you!
Glad to help! I dig (eek, bad, unintentional pun that I should probably delete) Bluplanted. A few years back, I searched for DIY landscape architect tools and didn't find anything that was very user friendly. Good luck with it!
I'm working on Bluplanted now and curious what an ideal DIY landscape architect tool would look like for you? I know you mentioned it being user friendly is one criteria, but can you give me a sense of what else you would like to see in it?
Awesome you're working on it! I hope this helps as I haven't dug into the space very deeply but here's my two cents:
-I didn't want to download anything
-I had an oddly shaped yard at the time and couldn't start with a "rectangle" or "square" layout, I needed to be able to customize it
-I would have loved a library of plants (with photos) that I could have searched and filtered by: light requirements, water requirements, soil requirements, growth zone, whether they were edible etc
-Once selected, you'd be able to drag those plants to your virtual yard and the program would automatically adjust for the space they needed, whether they'd do well next to other plants, etc.
Thank you! This is very helpful feedback!
By virtual yard, would you want a 3d view of your yard or more of a top down view as if you were looking at it from the satellite view of Google Maps? (From what you describe, sounds like the latter)
For the virtual library of plants, do you care about having plant recommendations?
I was thinking top-down view and yes, plant recommendations would be GREAT. Maybe you could input light conditions, water preference, etc and get suggestions?
Thanks for confirming and great ideas!
While I have you, do the same rules apply here if I wanted to copy plant listing information from, say, an online nursery website?
Sorry for the delayed response. My delicate balance of motherhood and practicing law is off this week. Yes, same rules would apply.
I actually have a few legal questions for you this time.
If I am prompting an end user for their address so that the app can get a satellite view of their yard (but not storing their address) is there anything I need to be concerned about here?
If I store a satellite view of their "yard", but not actually associating it with an address any legal concerns here?
If I store a user's zipcode for the purpose of recommending plants that would grow well in their area, is there anything I should be concerned about in doing this from a legal standpoint?
Thanks for noticing! Glad I’m not the only one that would find it useful. It’s not on my priorities at the moment but maybe in the future
You're absolutely asking the right questions, but the answers are too long to post here. Email me at maria@start.law and I'll reply with the info. Glad you're working on this!
Emailed thanks!