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At what point will all these snippets stop being "fair use" and start being copyright violations? What happens if your website aggregates schedules of some obsc
by saurabhnanda 12y ago
At what point will all these snippets stop being "fair use" and start being copyright violations? What happens if your website aggregates schedules of some obscure (but interesting to a niche audience) event and makes money off of advertising. And Google decides to show the snippet of the next 5 upcoming events on the SERP itself, thus killing your traffic.
- spullara 12y agoMaybe showing the schedule for an event shouldn't be worth anything and it is an anomaly that it currently is? My guess is that most of the time sites like this are just out-SEOing the actual event page.
- tantalor 12y agorobots.txt ---------- User-agent: * Disallow: /
- dannyr 12y agoIf the value of your site can be diminished by showing 5 lines of text, your site probably isn't worth that much.
- throwaway41597 12y agoIt's a relevant question. Regardless of what one thinks about copyright law, it is what it is and all players should abide it. IANAL, so I can't say :( However, I think there is a need for a more granular robots.txt such as: User-agent: * Allow-crawl: / Limit-display: /events 10words Limit-display: /blog 30words This way, websites can state how big of a search result they are comfortable with and everyone abiding these limits is safer legally. Websites will have to be a bit lenient in order to have prominent results and gain visibility, but they will have to limit that so users click the search result. Right now, Google has its algorithms decide how much copying is legal and if you disagree you can either disallow Google Bot or sue them, so this would provide a middle ground.