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Re:The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice by jrs235 on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:21PM (#11134833)
How would the Daily Mail feel about (and what would they do) if someone constantly scraped their website and redistributed the content? Perhaps a fun side project called TheLessAdsDailyMail.com?
Re:The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice by vonklaus on Friday February 19, 2016 @01:51PM (#11135603)
That's a good idea! What if we repeatedly scraped their site and then display it to some of the users on our site. Then, we could charge them some small fee to click on the link.

We could sell them some of the data around who clicked on the link, and even charge their users after we segment them. We would probably have to crawl the site a lot of times and then display their content, but essentially we would own it.

Someone should try this. If it worked out, maybe you could expand to buzzfeed, techcrunch and then literally all of the sites on the internet.

Why didn't anyone think of this? You would just be able to charge websites (and their users) for providing you content!

edit: After thinking about it, it would probably be hard to do this. We could maybe create a standard and then show sites based on how well people listen to that, and then for the rest just see what are users look for and pick.

Re:The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice by watty on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:30PM (#11134903)
Copying an entire site is a bit different, if you copy one of their articles I doubt anything would happen. Maybe a sternly worded email.

If you copied their entire site, used their name, and removed their ads I'm sure they'd get lawyers involved.

Re:The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice by madaxe_again on Friday February 19, 2016 @01:50PM (#11135589)
Oh, but you could have something in the footer that says "full credit for content to daisy mayall", which is on par with their citations.

It's a fun idea though - seo bomb them until their bottom line aches.

Re:The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice by cgm616 on Friday February 19, 2016 @04:36PM (#11136819)
I don't think (not a lawyer) that they could do anything if you put a disclaimer that it is a parody of their "creative work."

That should allow use of slightly changed (LessAdsDailyMail) trademarks, and proper citations could handle the rest.

Re:The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice by dickbasedregex on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:32PM (#11134923)
We all know what they'd do. Respond with threats and litigation probably.