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Originally Posted by fusionx
No one is syndicating their entire web site, word for word.
If they are, then, yeah - you can use it.
It all boils down to whether the site doing the syndication has an AUP or TOS along with it.
From Wikipedia:
A web feed is a document (often XML-based) which contains content items, often summaries of stories or weblog posts with web links to longer versions. Weblogs and news websites are common sources for web feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured information ranging from weather data to "top ten" lists of hit tunes. The two main web feed formats are RSS (which is older and far more widely used) and Atom (a newer format that has just completed the IETF standardization process.)
The terms "publishing a feed" and syndication are used to describe making available a feed for an information source, such as a blog. Like syndicated print newspaper features or broadcast programs, web feed contents may be shared and republished by other web sites. (For that reason, one popular definition of RSS is Really Simple Syndication.)
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How about this. Go repost CNN articles word for word on your website. I'll turn you in and when they tell you to take it down you can let it sit to see just how serious they are. It's theft, just because it's there does not give you the right to publish it as you see fit. You can use parts under fair use as with anything but to publish the feed is stealing. Even the bigger blogs that will allow you to post their full stuff as in their terms will not let you do it if you have ads on the page. Keep poking the angry bloggers and eventually you will find one that will sue and you can see just how expensive it is to lose a copyright suit.
