Re: [syndication] Re: some republished feeds

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

The NY Times feed was not scraped. And we each have to make decisions for
ourselves. I decided that I had to ask permission, and didn't get it, so I
honored their wishes. Others have different business plans, and I respect
that. I'm glad that Moreover and NewsIsFree and others are scraping, and I
think in the end, if the providers really want to be on the Web, they'll
support it too. Dave



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: some republished feeds


> --- 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
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