Is it allowed to copy product description from other website

They can sue you, it doesn't mean they would win, but they might. I'm not a lawyer, but lifting part of their product description for your own purposes doesn't sound like fair use to me. Sounds more like copyright infringement to me.



To be honest, you shouldn't even be asking legal questions on a marketing forum. You need legal advise, and few marketers are qualified to give that to you -- myself included.

Like I said, I'm not a lawyer. If you want my lay opinion, you could be sued for copyright infringement for using that. Whether you would be or not is debatable.

Here's what I don't get . . . you've spent more time posting here about it than it would have taken to simply write your own description. Why not do your own write-up and have a clear conscience and not have to worry about being sued?

If you are selling the same product, FAIR USE DOES NOT APPLY! FAIR USE is for education, parodies, examples, and competition(selling a different product). IANAL, but I think the legal discussions of this seem clear. ALSO, fair use has a limit as to how much is copied.

And YEAH, you COULD be sued. You really don't have to know German to know it says the same thing, and many Germans speak English. ALSO, they MAY have an English translation or site.

Steve

Here's an idea:

Buy a Thesaurus and say the same thing with different words.

Example:
"Extremely comfortable, and genuine all-rounder....."

could become:

"Highly pleasurable and comforting to wear, for any and all purposes"

It kind of sounds like you just want to save some time by snatching other peoples' descriptions. If you're worried about being sued, or simply don't want to be a plagiarist, take a bit of time and write your own stuff. A thesaurus will help, and you would basically do what spinner software does.

Do you have a Copyscape Premium account? I suggest you get one for this exact reason. Simply take some adjectives in each word and change them to different ones, then paste the whole description into Copyscape. It will show you whether or not the content has been plagiarized, as well as by what percentage.

To answer your question, I wouldn't blatantly use their descriptions. If they find out, you could get into a lot of trouble. Plus, I wouldn't imagine this being great for the SEO of your site. Good luck.

Why you are going to copy others content? You can read there content, then you can write yourself. So there may some variety. No plagiarism, please. The Plagiarism is not allow to anywhere. Thanks.

My standard is simple:

If I don't want the thing I'm about to do to be done to ME, then I don't do it.

I stress less. I am happy.

Hmm... woopshop, that's an interesting name. I checked out your website and your logo.

I was just thinking about a new logo for my new venture "Poopshop".

What do you think?












But seriously....



These type of questions that are asked here on this forum such as: "is it legal to x y z..."
Or "will I be sued if I do this or that..."

can sometimes be translated as "what do YOU think a site owner will do to me when he finds out that I took his x y z..."

And this here is yet another case that no one can really predict.

Some site owners may be more lenient than others about you having a few similar words on your site, but I'm not so sure what even the most lenient ones would do when they find out that you have 400 "articles/descriptions" on your pages that look strikingly similar to theirs.

The question you have to ask yourself though, is how do you feel about the fact that your daily "Things To Do" list looks something like this:

1. Find website to copy stuff from.
2. Copy stuff from website to my own.
3. Ask in warrior forum if this is legal.


Kinda backwards ain't it?


Either way, whether what you are doing is legal or not, in most cases doesn't matter if a business decides to sue you anyway. (As Dennis and others have pointed out above).

I can only tell you that I would not be happy if you pulled that stuff from my sites,
and I would probably arrange for you to receive some type of notice to let you know of this fact.

May you could consider using textbroker(.de). You can bulk upload text orders there. Just give a link to the original in the job description and let the authors describe it in their own words.
With 50 words per article ,~2ct. per word and 400 descriptions you are at around 400€. Should be cheaper than the lawyer.

Use your own words, they're just as good as any other persons words!

Just messing with you....

And yes I'm in Canada, but grew up next door to you in Holland. I do speak/read German as well.

On the topic of your thread, ironically it was only last week that I came across yet another
marketer who decided to create (copy) and sell a very similar product to one that we have been selling for years.

But instead of spending the time coming up with something unique for their sales presentation,
they decided to simply use our sales page text as a template for their page.
They copied entire paragraphs word for word, and made very minimal changes.

Naturally we made sure that their legal contact will be viewing a screenshot of their product presentation compared to ours. And I trust they will then decide to do the right thing.

Little cases like ours and yours, usually do not end up in some historic legal court battle,
they usually just end up in a website having to rewrite, redesign, and sometimes going offline.

Possible but it is best to make you a personal content to be exclusive and in solo and topping the best mattresses...

Use a tool that spins the writing for you so it looks 80%+ original!