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Well, this is an algorithm I wrote for a vertical search engine. I retain the rights to reuse it in other products I'll build. I'm definitely not a lawyer. As
by alexdong 18y ago
Well, this is an algorithm I wrote for a vertical search engine. I retain the rights to reuse it in other products I'll build.
I'm definitely not a lawyer. As for the ToS violation concerns you raised, since I'm not redistributing the content, am I still to be sued? The user just saves some excerpts for later reading. No?
Alex
PS. 'I assume since you didn't post a link to a demo, you're a business guy with an idea and not much code.'. Will you call Joel Spolsky a business guy? :-)
- lacker 18y agoFrom your description it sounds like you are redistributing the content: The site will extract the contents from these links as a rss feed. User could subscribe to this feed in their mobile news reader. Having your website turn another person's website into an rss feed is redistributing the content.
- alexdong 18y agoI see what you mean. Thanks, lacker.
- thomaspaine 18y agoIsn't this exactly what dapper.net does? I've used it myself to create feeds for websites that are stuck in 1996 and haven't moved on to RSS yet.
- lacker 18y agoI'm not very familiar with dapper.net, but it seems to be saying that content owners can use dapper to distribute their content, rather than allowing random people to strip ads out of anything. For example when I search for [colbert] on dapper.net it has little icons saying permission of the copyright owner is needed.