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Re:The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, st... by jkeuhlen on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:40AM (#22866544)
This looks really interesting! I've been building an RSS reader for myself in my free time, and this will be really useful. I was wondering if you know anything about the legal implications around scraping full-content like this and packaging it up? I was planning to do it with some fun added-on features, but was worried it would be considered copy-right infringement (since I would basically be re-hosting other site's content without permission). And some websites outright ban this kind of usage in the TOS for their RSS feeds. For example, from the Washington Post[1]

> a. For any article, you may not display more text than we provide in the RSS feed.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/rss-terms-of-service/2012/01/...

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