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I was thinking the same. Probably it is illegal.
by andi999 6y ago
I was thinking the same. Probably it is illegal.
- Drdrdrq 6y agoI guess it depends on their jurisdiction? If someone knows more, please do share.
- riku_iki 6y agoNews content has fair use cases, citing titles as this service does probably is Ok.
- andi999 6y agoThere is the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_th... It depends on the country how this is implemented, but article 15 is informally called link tax.
- cambalache 6y agoWhy ? Maybe I am missing something.But if I understood their model correctly they are crawling websites(Not illegal) aggregating info of the articles(pub date, link, author,topic) and serving that as json. How is that different to the millions of link-aggregation websites, including HN?
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- andi999 6y agoIt says "extract all possible information (title, published date, author, content, etc.)" which includes content. I presume content is protected by copyright.
- cambalache 6y agoHa , content? You got me there, oh! the recklessness of youth.