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Is it legal as a news aggregator to display part of the content too?

Say your aggregator has an article, can you show like a snippet or two from the article or thats considered a form of piracy and can get you in legal trouble?

Again snippet, as in a little piece, not copy&paste the whole thing in your site.

And of course with a link to the original site.

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    It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

    99% of the time you are going to be fine to do this. When that 1% occurs just let them know you will remove them as a source. Most won;t do that as you are providing backlinks and traffic to them.

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      Good point

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    You may want to do some research about copyright law and the "fair use" doctrine.

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      Interestingly, the publishers back peddled after seeing traffic drop 40%.

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        Yeah but wasnt this before the whole gdpr thing?

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    I can’t answer exactly but should be safe to display what is in the RSS feed and the meta:description.