What are you talking about? Anything you post on LinkedIn is their property. You can't legally access anything on their site without agreeing to their policy. Did you not read the agreement when you signed up for the site?
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement#rights
> As between you and LinkedIn, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services, and you are only granting LinkedIn and our affiliates the following non-exclusive license:
>You own all of the content, feedback, and personal information you provide to us, but you also grant us a non-exclusive license to it.
You can call it what you want, they have rights to use anything you post on their site as they see fit.
My point stands. They are selling your content without your explicit permission, and against their own terms of service unless you argue that people would agree to their data being sold to recruiters.
That's fine and they're able to do so. But don't say it's also ethical for them to aggressively prevent other services from doing that without paying them.
I can just keep quoting it or you can just admit you're wrong:
>We will get your consent if we want to give others the right to publish your content beyond the Services. However, if you choose to share your post as "public", we will enable a feature that allows other Members to embed that public post onto third-party services, and we enable search engines to make that public content findable though their services.
>You and LinkedIn agree that we may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).
Literally says right there that they're only getting your permission if they share your content outside of "Services" - meaning outside of the Linkedin Platform. Those recruiters are using the service.
>Services
>This Contract applies to LinkedIn.com, LinkedIn-branded apps, Slideshare, LinkedIn Learning and other LinkedIn-related sites, apps, communications and other services that state that they are offered under this Contract (“Services”), including the offsite collection of data for those Services, such as our ads and the “Apply with LinkedIn” and “Share with LinkedIn” plugins. Registered users of our Services are “Members” and unregistered users are “Visitors”. This Contract applies to both Members and Visitors.
The difference in this analogy is that films are fully the IP of the production company but LI sells data that they don't explicitly own.