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> I wonder about the copyright to the headline and blurb content when other people share. I think this is a slippery slope on copyright enforcement, we have se
by actuator 6y ago
> I wonder about the copyright to the headline and blurb content when other people share.
I think this is a slippery slope on copyright enforcement, we have seen it getting ridiculous on YouTube. What if someone shares a screenshot of the article? and if we do this, are we not allowed to write dialogue exchange from movies in social media posts as well?
- aplummer 6y agoI think you raise the kind of grey area legislation would be good to look at (fair use), not what we are looking at now. I guess from my brief thinking is once your bot visits the site to scrape it (and uses resources from the vendor) it’s a bit different to a screenshot.
- michaelmrose 6y agoThere is a trivial way to avoid being scraped by a search engine robots.txt For facebook most of the time when it creates a screenshot to show next to the title in a share results in 1 or possibly many views driving revenue for the linked site for a small increase in bandwidth. For example their site gets pulled once and read a dozen times.
- reaperducer 6y agoWhat if someone shares a screenshot of the article? Probably no different than someone photocopying a newspaper article in a library. One of the colleges I went to had pretty strict rules about that posted right above the copy machine.