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Question about news fetching and copyright
I'm just wondering aloud here...
When you do a news fetch with Calibre, I assume it's going to (say) the Time magazine site and gathering up all the freely available stories and putting them together in a nice package to put on the reader. Is that right? I enjoy it, and yet I've wondered whether that isn't potentially a copyright violation. The software is, after all, gathering and reformatting and distributing copyrighted material. Again, I'm just wondering aloud, but... I've noticed that all the magazines I subscribe to are getting thinner and thinner as advertising dries up. I presume the online editions of all publications are paid for by online ads. Which are omitted when we get these nice compilations in Calibre. And so I ask myself...are we helping to kill the golden goose here? I'd be delighted if someone could tell me that I'm missing something important in the equation. |
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As opposed to visiting the webpages of the stories via an RSS feed and saving them to your disk with the Save to disk function in a browser and then using calibre to convert the webpages to something readable on the reader?
But I get your larger point which is that news publishers are running out of funding sources and calibre isn't helping that. To do that I have to say that calibre does not deliberately strip out the ads. The ads are removed as a side effect of making the webpages legible on the reader. If the publishers wised up and included ads in a way that did not make teir websites unusable on the reader, there would be no need to strip the ads. EDIT: Another purely legal point is tht calibre doesn't actually distribute the repackaged content. It would distribute the content if I set up a website and made the LRF/EPUB/MOBI files avaialble for download EDIT2: And from a purely practical viewpoint, the way online adds works is by page views. calibre presents itself as the firefox browser, so it should still register as a pageview. In fact because it downloads *all* the articles, not just the ones you actually read, it's good for the publishers Last edited by kovidgoyal; 02-24-2009 at 02:00 AM. |
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Oh and I should add that calibre supports subscription websites like the Wall Street Journal as well, where it will use your account information to login and get the articles for you.
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I suppose a lot of publishers are even now trying to decide whether to go to a subscription (or partial subscription) model. The subscription prices I've seen for the Kindle seem quite reasonable, and I wonder if that's a model that will take root. I didn't realize Calibre could handle paid-subscription content. Cool. Quote:
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