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Re: copyright

--- In syndication@y..., Peter Van Dijck <peter@p...> wrote:
> If you combine a few RSS feeds and turn those into a new feed and 
publish 
> that on your site and publish a feed as well, is that legal? What's 
up with 
> the legal aspects of these feeds?

I've wondered about this for a while.  Gathering the headlines in a 
list is one thing.  It seems like a rather harmless thing to do.  
That is, if you're then directing them in an unframed window to the 
actual site itself for viewing.  

Putting the text of the articles in the view would seem to infringe 
on copyright.  Framing the target page with you own border would also 
likely infringe (and I believe someone did sue regarding this).

IANAL but this seems it needs clarification.

-Bill Kearney