Using RSS feeds and copyright situations help ?

[Stemmy]

I have recently been looking at using the feeds section of xenforo.

What I'm not sure about are any copyright issues that could be incurred by using the feeds.

If I use an RSS from another website and then publish it in my forum surely the images and text are copyright to the publisher so I would be breaching their copyright ? Is this right ?

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ozzy47]

Not really, if they offer a RSS feed, that is what the purpose is for.

 

[Stemmy]

So your saying we can copy text and images from another website and feed them into your own forum without and copyright comeback at all ?

That seems very odd to me ??

 

[Ozzy47]

If it is something that is in their RSS feed, and you are using the feed as they put out, no. There is no copy and pasting involved, you are using a RSS feed they have on their site. If they did not want the info out there, they would turn off the RSS on their side.

 

[Mouth]

You would have to read the terms/usage of the RSS feed to ascertain where you would stand with regard to republishing content within an RSS feed.