What is the legitimacy of repackaging other RSS feeds into a new presentation?

Question

I know that services such as my.yahoo.com allow you to add content from RSS feeds to your personal page, but in general these are links that attract the user to the site that provided the feed. What are the legality and consequences of using RSS feeds as a data source for a site that repackages data in order to be unrecognizable that it came from a specified source.

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Do I need to give a loan? Is this a copyright violation? What is ethical?

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What to do if a loan is indicated? Does this mean your opinion? Is permission required?

Answer 1

In my opinion, it depends on the company of the data source about whether they allow it in their conditions. It probably also depends on where your servers are located (i.e. what legal structure they are in.)

If this is not explicitly permitted or if you have written consent, I do not consider it ethical.

It also depends on how big your legal department is.

Answer 2

Of course it's ethical! What is RSS, if not for syndication, so many diverse and wonderful forms that developers can come up with?

Of course, permission must be requested - in the form " GET /feed/ HTTP 1.0 ". And it must be submitted in the form of “ 200 OK ” - or rejected in the form of “ 403 Forbidden ”.

The screen scraper is at least morally ambiguous, because perhaps the author wants people, not programs, to view the content (assuming that you believe him in the rights of the author to make this distinction). But RSS? Jokes aside? No one forces anyone to create a syndicated, easily modifiable format for their content. This is not just useful for new presentations, but for him.

Answer 3

Well, legality aside from this is unethical not to give credit to the source. AP, for example, wants a loan

Answer 4

I would say that the publication of some other work without giving them a loan will certainly lead to lawsuits or, at least, decisive words and stop letters (which will be followed by lawsuits).

Answer 5

The difference between what you offer and services such as my.yahoo.com, Netvibes, Bloglines, Google Reader, etc., is that you select feeds , while with these other services the user specifies a feed and therefore knows about this source source.

Despite the fact that the content is published in feeds and therefore is expected to be used with services such as those I mentioned above , the publisher still retains the copyright to its content , and usually expected to be reissued as. It is also customary to provide a link back to the original source of the content and republish the content, without it, at least, will be underestimated.

Answer 6

I wondered the same thing for a while and really hesitate to republish RSS feeds FeedForAll says there is no inalienable right to play content. You ask whether it is normal to cripple the content, I am quite sure that the content cannot be reproduced. I think it will be like posting

<iframe src='www.stackoverflow.com'> </iframe>

on my website.

BTW. This is not a subjective question, and it is important. I will ask this question again or edit the title and get more relevant feedback.

Answer 7

Talk to your lawyer.

Answer 8

From AP RSS site ...

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Answer 9

From the Reuters RSS Site ...

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