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Old 02-20-2011
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Default copyright question: can I pull a business' reviews off Urbanspoon, Yelp, etc?
Hoping someone can help me find an answer to this question: I'm working on a restaurant's website and wanted to include good reviews about them. They have over 50 positive reviews on Urbanspoon, Yelp, and Trip Advisor. However, they have about half a dozen negative reviews too. Can I copy the good reviews off those sites and paste them into the restaurant's site? Or is that considered copyright violation? If I just link to the review sites, the negative ones will also show up.

I just discovered that Yelp enables you to link to individual reviews so it looks like that's the solution there. But I wonder about Urbanspoon & TripAdvisor.

Any input would be appreciated.
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Default Re: copyright question: can I pull a business' reviews off Urbanspoon, Yelp, etc?
You can link to those websites that the comments are posted on, that would be the best you could do however.
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Default Re: copyright question: can I pull a business' reviews off Urbanspoon, Yelp, etc?
If you look in the terms of service for each site you're interested in using content from you'll find they each have a unique set of rules - here's a link to the TripAdvisor info on what you can use on your client's site.
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