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Originally Posted by jayeff
You need to check out "fair use". Review sites are not in a gray area like arguably TGPs are which skim some of the clicks off thumbnails to their trades. Review sites are covered by exactly the same laws as newspapers, magazines and electronic media, allowing them to quote excerpts of text and the like quite legally.
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I think there's a strong argument to be made against that, because if a newspaper gives a restaurant a bad review and recommends a different one, they don't get a kickback from the owner of restaurant number two.
Same thing with a magazine like consumer reports, they take no advertising money so they can say whatever they want about any product.
Review sites are in that gray area because they do make money selling the products they review.
