I have an idea...but it might be illegal

Its like sharing a netflix account.

Its not illegal, but it does break the terms of use.

The newsletters can probably not easily stop you from doing this, but they might try to sue you and could possibly take you to court depending on where you are.

But the question i'd ask myself, do you want to dedicate time to ripping off other peoples value? or would you rather be working on yourself so you can provide something of value yourself?

"Illegal" is a nebulous term. Is it a crime? No. Is it a breach of the Terms of Use of those newsletters as well as copyright infringement? Yes. Implementing this idea could/should only be done with the consent of the newsletter publishers themselves.

If you just do the smart work you can turn illegal work into million dollar legal business under right to report, teach and educational purpose act. You can position yourself as spreading information. For accepting payments you can use crypto currency. Getting rumours spread and backlashes from top newsletters will only make your service more famous (Flywheel effect) ... as long as you stay anonymous you should be good, It's like a silk road for newsletter, quite risky . :D

You can make it work if you tell the newsletter story in your own words. What I mean is that you can summarize ideas mentioned in the newsletters and provide your personal view on the subject. You can repurpose content for different platforms like YT, TikTok, etc. You can do this at scale with so many AI tools available.

That way, you're not copying/pasting.

Newsletter owners will want to work with you since they'll get more exposure and potentially more paid readers.

You can do this BUT only if you reorient slightly to doing it the legal way. Do that!!

What you should do is something like this:

1. Get people to sign up
2. Save the multiple newsletters they'd like to receive
3. See where there's a substantial number of users asking for pairs, trios of authors
4. Approach those and offer them a package deal (say, 1/3 the cost of 1.5 subscriptions)
5. Go back to your original users, offer them that deal

That's legal and everybody wins.

This would 100% be copyright infringement. Just because a person sends out a written work via an email blast doesn't mean they lose any copyright protection on their work. If you don't want to cooperate with the list owners you still have some options. Instead of verbatim copies you could offer fair use quotes, reviews, and outlines of the emails. That way you wouldn't be infringing on anyone's copyright and customers would have a better idea of what they are getting access to before they buy.

Not sure why this would be illegal. Because if I understand correctly you are going to pay the person/company providing the newsletter the same money it owes, and also the audience. Plus, you might become a channel through which people discover great newsletter, and that is a win for everyone.

Obvious breach of terms. There is one possible way though - if you come with a revenue sharing agreement with the paid newsletters (they could consider it - worth a try).
Otherwise you may find yourself in the courts quickly.

hey, I like the way you think, and as per the other comments it would likely infringe on the news letters terms of service, however, there may be a win/ win you could find with the publishers, whereby you would be introducing them to a new audience, maybe for a limited period of time (eg 3 month) and then the reader can sign up for a reduced amount, and you get a kickback or take a share of the subscription.

Competing on pricing is a tough road to go down, good luck

You could test the idea in a small circle of friends. In this scenario it would be similar to borrowing a newspaper to your uncle and it would be very difficult and unreasonable to sue you for that (Not legal advice).

If you want to commercialize it you will have to deal with the copyright mafia. Either you comply with them or fight them. This is not legal advice and you should be extremely careful to not do stupid mistakes. As John McAfee used to say "try to stay out of jail".

From an ethical perspective, my personal opinion is that copyright is of no benefit to humanity and therefore all ideas and pixels should be free to use and share. However, you may also respect the current reality and the fact we have these standards established.

Ultimately, this might be a benefit to you and your business idea if you decide to do it the legal way. There seem to be a number of successful flat rate subscription offerings for magazines etc so why not work on the same thing for newsletters.

For more moral guidance, Google "5 markets agorism" and "10 commandments".

It's not legal in theory. But it should be different in different countries

It's reasonable to share amongst a small circle of friends, but it's not appropriate to establish a public piracy service.

It's not legal. But you should deal with other services before doing that.

You have to get the newslettee publishers to opt in. To make the deal worth their while, you need to pay them proportionately based on your subscriber's consumption. Let's say for example you have a 10€ monthly subscription. I, as your subscriber this month, read 10 newsletters from 10 publishers. You pay each of them 1€ (minus your fee). Next month I read nothing, you pocket all 10€. Next month I read 1000 newsletters from a single publisher, he gets the whole 10€ (minus your fee).

There is a big problem with this idea. Newsletters don't seem great for a bundle. If I have a newsletter that can drive subscribers, why would I join the bundle and get paid less than I could on my own?

You end up with a bundle of just the newsletters no one really wants to pay for.

If you sell the content of a newsletter without permission, then you will get in trouble.

I don't think it's illegal if you work with the authors of the paid newsletters. Here's an idea:

Build a paid newsletter platform where subscribers can access paid newsletters for a flat fee. The catch, though, is that authors of paid newsletters have to willingly apply to be on the platform.

P.S. This is coming from a techy law student.