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RSS feeds on your website? You may be in copyright violation
In today’s world of real estate websites and blogs, fresh content is a must. One strategy site owners use is to place RSS news feed plugins on their websites. The RSS plugin draws news headlines form other companies and generally these headlines link directly back to the source of the news.
I was contacted by a client who received a Getty Images letter making a payment demand for the unauthorized use of images on his website. My client stated that he did not actually place the images on his site and that the images in question were from the full RSS feed that he embedded from Realtor.com.
I responded on my client’s behalf to the law firm seeking legal action, stating the alleged infringed photos were actually purchased as licensed images by Realtor.com. The law firm dropped the case and I was motivated to research the use of RSS feeds by Realtors.
In general, copying material without permission of the copyright owner is copyright infringement. However, there is an interesting legal questioned raised by RSS. By making your website available by RSS, are you granting permission for others to republish your RSS feed?
In other words, RSS is an abbreviation, which includes the word “Syndication.” ... more

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