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Ask HN: How Are Webhose or Newsapi Legal?

They crawl news articles from site like CNN, FOX,... and serve them via an API for a fee. Isn't this a textbook case for copyright infringement? Does simply following robots.txt, as they claim, give you automatic immunity against copyright infringement?

I'm curious as I would like to create a similar service and am seriously concerned about the legal side of things.

10 points shoe_hn 7 years ago 2 comments

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