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Ask HN: How Are Webhose or Newsapi Legal?

10 pointsby shoe_hnabout 6 years ago
They crawl news articles from site like CNN, FOX,... and serve them via an API for a fee. Isn&#x27;t this a textbook case for copyright infringement? Does simply following robots.txt, as they claim, give you automatic immunity against copyright infringement?<p>I&#x27;m curious as I would like to create a similar service and am seriously concerned about the legal side of things.

2 comments

entelia09about 6 years ago
IANAL but I&#x27;m 99% sure they are not legal. They are just too tiny to be sued into oblivion. At the moment.
perfect_loopabout 6 years ago
This is a recipe for disaster.