Medium.com proxy

[Vasco Costa]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 08:32:59AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 07:20:52PM +0000,
>  Vasco Costa <vasco.costa at gmx.com> wrote
>  a message of 36 lines which said:
>
> > I think that every website that exposes a public API which allows
> > access to their content indirectly allows the user to redistribute
> > their content.
>
> This may be your personal opinion but it is not legal advice. This
> redistribution is certainly illegal in most legal systems.

Yes, just my layman opinion, however I meant the redistribution
conforming to the API terms. For instance, Twitter provides an API for
developers to create third-party clients. In my opinion a client that
you download from an app store, using such API, isn't breaking the law
by showing unaltered tweets. Or otherwise what's the use of such APIs?

Now, like I've also said in my original message, this is to be
contrasted with simply scraping a website's HTML where there's not a
public API to extract info. In this case it seems clearer to me that
content isn't meant for redistribution.

However, I honestly have no legal background at all, and I'm just trying
to figure out myself what can or cannot constitute infringement. I think
this is an important topic and hopefully we can learn from each other's
more or less educated guesses.

> > By reduction to absurdity, if we create a web browser that cannot
> > render some HTML tags used by ads or that does not interpret
> > javascript, are we also just copying/modifying content?
>
> Here I agree with Jonathan's answer:
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 10:24:46PM +0000,
>  Jonathan Lane <jon at dorsal.tk> wrote
>  a message of 42 lines which said:
>
> > I think this would be a lot less legally dicey if it were something
> > you could run on your own LAN, akin to a caching proxy like Squid.
>
> The big issue is not when you render things in your own way (using
> lynx or Dillo is legal) but when you provide access to others.

I totally agree with this as well.

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