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Is it legal to copy information such country, job titles, etc.?

• posted by: user3284463 on 2016-10-09
• tagged: legal, website, copyright
• score: 0

Am I breaking any laws by copying very common information such as countries, job titles, industries, etc.

An good example would be from Linkedin. Is it okay if I copy all the industry titles given here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/industry-codes exactly as they are(e.g Package/Freight Delivery, Outsourcing/Offshoring).

P.S. If you can please give this post a better relative title ,please do :)

Answer 11309

• posted by: Denis de Bernardy on 2016-10-09
• score: 0

The codes you linked to are pretty common and likely derived from some .gov website, stats agency, or market data provider, rather than LinkedIn specific. You should be perfectly fine re-using them as is. If you don’t feel comfortable doing so without checking with a lawyer there are quite a few other options, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Industrial_Classification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Industry_Classification_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters_Business_Classification

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