Q: US American IT & Internet Law
Dear All
We are planning to launch a Platform as a Service in the hospitality sector in United States (Florida). The clubs should sign up on our online platform where they can post their venues for possible guests. Well, as a startup it's hard gaining clubs as our clients especially when they never heard about us. We will register the clubs by ourselves,post their events/venues, upload their flyers on our platform without asking them.
Is this method allowed? i mean we are doing additional publicity for their venues.
A: It's not a simple question, but if you "scrape" only publicly available information and do not copy the exact verbiage — plus avoid using trademarked logos — the site should be safe. Your reference to uploading "flyers" is problematic, though, because copyright law prohibits using an entire "work" (whole writing), as opposed to a snippet or link based on so-called "fair use."
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