The integration other provider's rss into my own website is againest the law or not? Is there a law difinitedly deny it? Thanks, Kevin
no - if they have RSS on their site, I'm pretty sure that means they know that it is available for public use (otherwise they would have de-scripted it or not have included it in the first place)
Thanks for your quick response, markn26! I google searched the issue, it seems that there're some articles have discussed the it. But there's no last conclusion. Your answer helps me a lot. If there somebody else has different option? Thanks, Kevin
Just because something is available on a site does not mean you can use it. And no, it is not okay, because this is basic copyright licencing rights to understand. The story some like to spin is simple "it is there as rss so they WANTED me to get it and republish it!!!" - it is like saying "but look, she had a skirt on, she wanted me to take her!". Using content without proper licencing will get you in trouble, period. You may be too unimportant to get noticed, but any good blogger has ego feeds set up for backlinks as well as usually certain keywords / names and will track you. Usually - depending on how dumb you are in using the content - you will either get mail, or your provider will for copyright infringements. So the answer is: leave it and do content of your own.
Respectfully, I disagree... Online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. That doesn't mean that anyone else can publish their content; but merely that the content is available for individuals to read.
I believe RSS is for easy distribution of content to users of the website whose RSS feed is in focus. Any other site has no business in using RSS feed of other site, except... - other site is explicitly encourage you to use it. - or you take permission for the usage.
I missed this post and started a thread on the same subject. A woman contacted me for using her rss feed- I am a content writer but still use RSS feeds. I agree with Markn26. RSS means Syndication-therefore it is publicly shared freely. However, since so many people don't understand what RSS means, I have to respect their wishes. But really, all RSS is is nicely formatted links to the owner's site, so why anyone has an issue with it, is beyond me. If someone doesn't want extra traffic, fine..I won't give it to them...If someone wants to call me a thief for driving traffic to their site...I think they're confused. I use RSS to HTML, but from now on, I think I will stick to news feeds from the big boys who understand what RSS is and want traffic back to their sites. Charisse
Hahaha Wait until the "Big Boys" figure out that you're making money off their copyrighted content. And you're not driving traffic to someone's site. You're trying to get your crap splog site up enough in the rankings off the back of other folk's work. Why would anyone want their content on a splog?
That's not true at all. I am a content writer and write for my own sites. The Big Boys offer relative news feeds and if you read the small print, many of them ok their feeds being displayed on blogs. I do not splog. I don't see any difference between writing a review of a site that I like and posting an rss feed that links to their content. I have never posted an RSS feed that didn't contain links to other's sites. In fact, when I use them (Usually within my articles, etc) I click on the links myself and read them. I don't know what you are talking about, really. I value RSS feeds and find them to be just what they say... Syndication-
Here is what I'm talking about. Read Yahoo's Terms regarding their RSS feeds. They specifically mention adding them to blogs. http://news.yahoo.com/rss The only thing that would be debatable would be if running a google adsense makes a blog a commercial entity. I don't feel it is. However, as for the right to put the "big boys" news feeds on the blogs, that's a given. It's just little petty writers who think their dribble is "all that" who complain, "Help, you're stealing my content to make millions off of my slop." I thought I was doing their blogs a favor. Now, maybe I don't get around the Internet enough, but I have never seen any feed programs or scripts edit out the links. I'd rather have feeds from Yahoo, CNN, and AOL anytime. So, does throwing a few Google ads on a blog now make it a commercial enterprise- if so, I think Google is ripping me off...lol
I've been wondering this myself. Google News makes it pretty easy to save any "search" as an RSS feed. Now if I'm "republishing" that feed on a blog that has Adsense ads, am I violating their TOS?
I was under the impression that you can use an RSS feed to publish links/headlines to sites. I'm not sure I see where the issue is... Now using an RSS feed to scrape an entire article (or more than a small excerpt for a description) is surely copyright infringement. No argument there. Simply printing a syndicated feed (headlines/links), however, doesn't seem to be copyright infringement at all, for at least two reasons. I'm not claiming authorship of the content. I'm merely providing a link as a resource for my readers. They like my website on Topic A. Therefore they may find these relevant links on Topic A interesting as well. I'm allowed to excerpt information from copyrighted sources through "fair use." You can use excerpts of song lyrics and printed books, as long as attribution is made. Why not articles/stories published online? - Walkere
There are a few Wordpress plugins available that allow you to publish or re-publish newsfeeds. I believe the default widget that's installed with WP has it built in. But does anyone know of any of these plugins that will provide a link back automatically to the original site and perhaps just publish the first few paragraphs?
The built-in RSS Feed Widget in Wordpress simply lists links back to the articles as listed in the feed. I currently use one based on the dZone.com feed. It lists X number of links (you can choose how many), no descriptions, no content. By default, these are all regular links back to the original articles. I've modified it to use rel="nofollow" links, since I don't want 10 sitewide links out to a random feed (there's an article in my PHP Tutorials on how to do that). - Walkere