Hi, I'm new to the whole website business so please don't flame me if this question is invalid I'm purely curious if such a site would be acceptable, or any type of info on these type of sites If a site automatically scrapes high ranking articles from top sites like ezinearticles and others, and makes a dynamically updating collection of these articles on the site and it serves them on its site. Except the site prides it's self in providing a collection from other sites. It makes absolutely no attempt at claiming ownership for these articles and it always gives the proper "got from" url and author information. Is a site like this acceptable? Again, if it is not. please understand I am not any kind of scammer, scraper, or any of that business. Just questioning the legality of such an idea. thank you
To elaborate, it depends on the terms set forth in the sites you are scraping from. This is a common practice, but the way it is done in most cases is illegal. If the sites that you are scraping say in their ToS that this is acceptable then it is legal. Otherwise it is not. Now, if you do not scrape the entire article, just the headline with a link to the full text on the original site then you will probably be fine (like Google news does).