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I'm not a lawyer, but I had the same questions with my project and discovered that you can aggregate feeds under the Safe Harbor Provisions of the DMCA (http://
by dpapathanasiou 19y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I had the same questions with my project and discovered that you can aggregate feeds under the Safe Harbor Provisions of the DMCA (http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html) as long as:
(1) You stick to publicly-available feeds
(2) You don't edit the feed content
(3) You provide the feed owner a way to opt-out if he doesn't want you to access his feed anymore
- mstefff 19y agoThank you for the link, it's extremely helpful. I'm still sifting through everything, but does this still allow for commercial usage of the feeds?
- dpapathanasiou 19y agoThat's the extent of my knowledge; you should really find an attorney who understands IP and explain your idea.
- mstefff 19y agoI'm just confused because I see so many sites that aggregate RSS feeds. It seems like almost every site is doing it now - especially those sites like popurls.com and alltop.com. I emailed a handful of the companies whose feeds I am planning on using to see if they could elaborate a bit more. Thanks again.