: Would using content from third-party websites while giving credit to them be considered "fair use"? I want to create a international flight search engine website that links to multiple other flight

@BetL925

Here is a good reference about what constitutes "fair use" under United States copyright law: fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
The upshot is that using content from another website and giving credit does NOT constitute fair use. Fair use only applies in one of the three following cases:


Your copy is transformative (creates something new from the original)
The work you are copying is facts or data
Only a very short excerpt was copied


Your use must also not deprive the copyright holder of any commercial value. The article goes into much more detail with relevant cases and examples.

It is generally easier to license content rather than rely on fair use. Some publishers license their content freely under Creative Commons licenses. The content on this site is available to be copied and republished under such a license with attribution required.

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