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Is this even legal to crawl news sites, get their contents and then sell them to others without paying anything to the publishers . Even if you buy a subscripti
by ab_testing 6y ago
Is this even legal to crawl news sites, get their contents and then sell them to others without paying anything to the publishers .
Even if you buy a subscription to New York Times or the Wall Steet Journal, that only gives you the permission to personally use that content and not sell it out to others.
I believe that the founders business is very small right now and currently flying under the radar but if they grow to o big and get noticed the news companies, their model might be at risk.
- greenyoda 6y agoTheir sample JSON response suggests that they're not returning the content of the article, only a one-line summary and metadata (title, author, date, etc.): https://www.notion.so/News-API-46632a5cd61548919ff0132b15b0f0fa?p=2eff4d9b6e6b4a87a8e2230424aee4be https://www.notion.so/News-API-46632a5cd61548919ff0132b15b0f... This seems similar to what a search engine like Google would provide.