Newspaper Jobs Columns; Are They Becoming Redundant?

This comes to the IPKat from Haaretz, via his friend Mena Kaplan of Marval O'Farrell & Mairal, Argentina.

Tel Aviv District Court Judge Yehuda Zaft has ruled that Herzl Ozer, full general managing director of Off-Tov in addition to founder of the AllJobs network site, is allowed to proceed to re-create undertaking chance notices from the classified ads of Maariv newspaper - in addition to evidently from other newspapers, too. The gauge rejected Maariv's petition for an injunction against Ozer in addition to his website in addition to advised Maariv to consent to the dismissal of the newspaper's NIS 1 meg (173,317 euro) damages suit. This ruling effectively paves the manner for whatever commercial torso to purpose the situations vacant listings of another, without such purpose constituting information theft or copyright infringement.

Maariv: the cry way "evening" inwards English. Will the Sun hold upwardly setting on its paper-based jobs columns?

In this item case, at that topographic point was no information theft: information on avaliable jobs didn't belong to Maariv, but rather to the advertisers, who merely purpose the daily paper equally a platform in addition to advertisers bring an involvement inwards their notices beingness published inwards other places apart from Maariv in addition to the job-seeking world is also interested inwards "an accessible site that enables them to easily survey undertaking offers". Maariv argued that people would halt buying its spaper in addition to would surf Ozer's site instead, to which the gauge responded:

"The network poses novel challenges to businesses that relay information to the full general world via quondam platforms. The world has an involvement inwards promoting inaugural ... The paper must reveal a manner to be amongst it."

Maariv has claimed that inwards the yesteryear decade it had invested NIS 174 meg (over thirty meg euro) inwards publishing undertaking chance supplements in addition to marketing campaigns in addition to roughly other $1 meg inwards launching its ain network site. This did non motion the judge, who observed: "The petitioner is to hold upwardly viewed equally naught to a greater extent than than an company that offers an advertising platform inwards telephone commutation for payment. The resources invested yesteryear the petition were aimed mainly at promoting the reputation of the platform in addition to non at collecting the information included inwards the notices that were published". thinks this must hold upwardly right in addition to thus far equally copyright police is concerned: that right protects the shape inwards which information is presented, non the information itself. However, on the right facts Ozer's website, if operated inside the European Union, may perchance infringe the sui generis database right. Merpel says, "I prefer the network to newspapers every fourth dimension -- it's easier to search in addition to I don't instruct newsprint on my paws".

Some odd situations vacant here , here and here