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Does anyone have any good information on the legal ramifications of re-posting RSS content to your own sites without the web site owners' prior permission?
I have heard conflicting information on the topic.
Some of my sources say that as long as the blog / web site owner does not specifically say that you are not allowed to re-post their content, then it is OK. i.e. that making their content available via RSS *without any requirements or notices indicating that you are prohibited from re-posting the content or using the content for commercial purposes without prior consent* is an implicit license to do with the content what you want. i.e that by virtue of them making content available via RSS, you can do whatever you want with that content. I have heard this argument from an actual lawyer with an 'online media' practice, who sounded very convicing, but somehow, this seems to good to be true.
And, I have other sources that say that all content is copyrighted and that if you use it for commercial purposes without prior consent, then web site owner can sue you for stealing copyrighted content.
Does anyone have any definitive information as to how this works and which interpretation is correct?
I have heard conflicting information on the topic.
Some of my sources say that as long as the blog / web site owner does not specifically say that you are not allowed to re-post their content, then it is OK. i.e. that making their content available via RSS *without any requirements or notices indicating that you are prohibited from re-posting the content or using the content for commercial purposes without prior consent* is an implicit license to do with the content what you want. i.e that by virtue of them making content available via RSS, you can do whatever you want with that content. I have heard this argument from an actual lawyer with an 'online media' practice, who sounded very convicing, but somehow, this seems to good to be true.
And, I have other sources that say that all content is copyrighted and that if you use it for commercial purposes without prior consent, then web site owner can sue you for stealing copyrighted content.
Does anyone have any definitive information as to how this works and which interpretation is correct?