Re: some republished feeds

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

--- In syndication@y..., Jim Winstead <jimw-yahoo@t...> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:44:38PM -0800, Dave Winer wrote:
> > Jim, this is excellent. I really want The Standard and 
Inside.Com. Please
> > repost when they're ready, I tried loading them into Radio but it 
doesn't
> > like them. :-(
> 
> they're "ready" now. there were some illegal characters in one of
> the stories from the standard (which i fixed, and my scraper is
> fixing automatically now).

I'm curious about something, doesn't scraping violate the source 
copyright?  If they're not already providing a feed is it OK to just 
jump in and grab it?  More importantly, is it OK to republish this 
for distribution?

Wasn't there a NY Times feed handled this way? Didn't the NYT ask 
that it be stopped?

I'm *all for* new feeds and these two would be great.  But not at the 
risk of alienating a provider.   

Thanks,
Bill Kearney