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Out of curiousity, does anyone know the legal standings on RSS feeds? Can we as a cable TV station pull an RSS feed from a local broadcast station and display it on carousel or is that against copyright issues? Thanks!
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Inappropriate?Obviously a question for a lawyer, but I'll give my two cents.
If an RSS feed is present, the publishers of the web page are obviously trying to promote there content. It is expected that people will subscribe. You could argue that your bulletin board is an RSS reader with a larger than single person audience.
That said, an RSS feed has a description field usually citing where the feed came from. I would make sure that is displayed somewhere. Also somewhere include the feeds URI. This essentially citing the source of the information and is overall good practice.
If it is a local source, why not just email someone and ask them?
Overall I think that grabbing RSS feeds is fine, as long as you cite them. Its definitely better than just randomly pulling information off a site. The RSS feed is meant to be syndicated. If they issue you a take down notice, remove the feed.
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Inappropriate?Jon:
I echo Ray's advice on just contacting the local source. Often times if you look at their policies it will state the use of their feeds. The worse they can say is no.
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