Putting RSS ReFeeds on your website

If you’re just including post titles, that’s fine, as the titles themselves are linking back to the source.

If you include the content, that’s content theft and a blatant copyright violation no matter how you credit it.

Question 1) What if I just include the text that is in the RSS Feed (ie, some text from rss feeds are a summary, and some are more in depth).

Question 2) What if I include the title and then the first paragraph of the feed?

Issue 3) Google, yahoo, MSN, and so many other sources out there provide news which is a summarized article of articles from other sites. So it seems to me I am well within my right to do this. I am doing exactly what google news does, so why should there be a problem?

1) No, the feed is strictly for reader consumption, not reproduction.

2) It’s a little better than including the whole content, but you still could find yourself at the wrong end of a lawsuit or DMCA takedown notice.

3) Google and others pay for a license that gives them the right to reproduce the content.

They pay for a license of the 100s of sources they provide information from? I don’t think so.

Go to news.google.com and check out the 100’s of sources google is linking to. Same with yahoo, msn, and tons of other sites. It is pretty common to link to external sources of news/articles.

Well, actually they pay for a license from a distributing network or agent, which has already paid for the right to distribute rights to the source material. It’s complicated, but it’s legal.

You’re free to do whatever you want, I’m just trying to tell you what’s legal and what isn’t.

Anyone else out there want to comment on this? I am curious what other people’s experiences have been with this.