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1) Why didn’t a newspaper company build this?
2) This is definitely outside the “spirit of the law” with fair use, in my mind.
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> 2) This is definitely outside the “spirit of the law” with fair use, in my mind.
How so? Am I missing something?
It’s a date, source, title, thumbnailed photo, and first few dozen words of article, and a **link back to the source**.
To me that is exactly what fair use should allow. And exactly what content creators should want (third parties driving traffic to their sites)
And why not a paper. Cause papers mostly don’t have large, supported development (as in software) departments. They don’t value developers as content creators. Too many papers create for print and as an afterthought throw whatever they got onto the web.
Re: fair use – for me personally, the fact that they’ve built an interface to someone else’s product is where the problem lies. As a convenient example, Blizzard, the makers of the insanely popular World of Warcraft MMORPG, allows anyone to build user-interface modifications for their game, which means anyone who knows how to code can customize the look, feel, and “workflow” of playing the game.
Blizzard also stipulates, however, that receiving compensation for those modifications is not allowed.
It can work either way – Twitter certainly has no issue with developers building on their platform and charging for it. It’s a business decision, and I think the default answer is “no, not allowed,” unless a business decides to be a platform.
re: Why not a paper – 100% agree, I think rather than asking a question I meant to imply exactly what you just said, and that it’s a problem.