Content and RSS Restrictions
Kinja, the new public weblog aggregator that Nick Denton describes as an "RSS reader for people who don't know what RSS is..." is coming under scrutiny by Suw Charman for "using free external content to raise advertising revenue."
Meanwhile, Google has informed developer Julian Bond of Voidstar that the Google News Terms of Use "do not currently permit the creation of a news feed from the results on Google News, nor do we permit webmasters to display Google News headlines on their sites. We provide a means for monitoring Google News searches through Google News Alerts and encourage you to use this service instead." Despite the fact that Google News itself scrapes a whole lot of news sites.
Whereas, thanks to Rafat Ali of Paid Content, Reuters has defined fair use for bloggers stating that "[i]nfringements of our copyright does not include where bloggers quote from and link back to our original story, or where sites display a headline and link back to reuters.com."
If you are interested in peeking over my shoulder to see a sampling of the 200 sites I aggregate and read daily you can check out my Kinja public digest.
see also: Mary Hodder: Why News and Technical DRM Don't Mix: Linking and Linking Expression are Key | Randy Dotinga: Publishers may start using plagiarism-detection software | John Palfrey says that he's been wondering about "the copyright implications of news aggregators and the increasingly widespread use of RSS feeds." | Martin Schwimmer objects to one of the blawgregators syndicating his feed posting his headlines and selling side by side advertising. | Google Hacks on how to scrape Google News (PDF)
Meanwhile, Google has informed developer Julian Bond of Voidstar that the Google News Terms of Use "do not currently permit the creation of a news feed from the results on Google News, nor do we permit webmasters to display Google News headlines on their sites. We provide a means for monitoring Google News searches through Google News Alerts and encourage you to use this service instead." Despite the fact that Google News itself scrapes a whole lot of news sites.
Whereas, thanks to Rafat Ali of Paid Content, Reuters has defined fair use for bloggers stating that "[i]nfringements of our copyright does not include where bloggers quote from and link back to our original story, or where sites display a headline and link back to reuters.com."
If you are interested in peeking over my shoulder to see a sampling of the 200 sites I aggregate and read daily you can check out my Kinja public digest.
see also: Mary Hodder: Why News and Technical DRM Don't Mix: Linking and Linking Expression are Key | Randy Dotinga: Publishers may start using plagiarism-detection software | John Palfrey says that he's been wondering about "the copyright implications of news aggregators and the increasingly widespread use of RSS feeds." | Martin Schwimmer objects to one of the blawgregators syndicating his feed posting his headlines and selling side by side advertising. | Google Hacks on how to scrape Google News (PDF)
