How does this play with copyright infringement? If I advertise a job on my own website, and someone copies that verbatim and reposts it, isn't it a clear case of copyright infringement? (or am I missing something....)
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms (April 2022) [1]:
> Using a “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, the Supreme Court said that when a computer or website’s gates are up — and therefore information is publicly accessible — no authorization is required.
> The Ninth Circuit, in referencing the Supreme Court’s “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, ruled that “the concept of ‘without authorization’ does not apply to public websites.”
Indeed, Crunchbase even host photos that they've scraped from other websites - how do they work around the image copyright? (I know profiles where they've taken copies of staff photos from a corporate website where they most certainly don't have permission to reproduce).
Most people having their copyright infringed probably don't care to sue Linkedin over it because their postings are getting additional exposure which is usually costly. The problem the OP complains of is that some other company's job postings are appearing on their company's Linkedin page, which isn't their copyright infringement lawsuit to fight (it's someone else's copyrighted work).
I'm not a lawyer so I don't really know what this is. Maybe trademark infringement? But you probably "signed" something giving them a perpetual irrevocable license to do stuff like that. "Tech companies being irritating in the third degree" is the best I have here. Not illegal yet, sadly.
