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The default "license" with copyright is basically "all rights reserved". Whenever you start copying or distributing someone else's material without permission,

by TillE 11y ago

The default "license" with copyright is basically "all rights reserved". Whenever you start copying or distributing someone else's material without permission, you'd better be pretty confident in a fair use exemption or some other legal argument.

ikeboy 11y ago
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_v._Google,_Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_v._Google,_Inc.) might apply here.
- MikeTaylor 11y ago
  That is true; but surely provision of an RSS feed constitutes a presumptive licence to redistribute.
  - ikeboy 11y ago
    I don't see why. RSS can be used by users on their own device, there's no need for a central aggregator.
  - wlesieutre 11y ago
    Why would serving RSS to RSS readers imply any different a license than serving HTML to a web browser?