I am a news junky, whether its national news, world news tech news even political news. I found myself going to so many different websites and then I decided to make a news site using RSS. I already had RSS on my site for a tech news feed from ZDnet. Not sure why it took me so long to create a full news site but nonetheless here it is now.

I hope you can enjoy the convenience of having all the popular news sources as well as a few not as famous sites. The news sources are from all over the world so you can see for yourself how the headlines for the same story differ. It's quite amazing actually.

Anyway, enjoy the site,!

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Fair Use:

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors

Example of Fair Use related to the Internet, as shown on Wikipedia, (read full article) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use )

Fair use on the Internet

A US court case in 2003, Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation, provides and develops the relationship between thumbnails, inline linking and fair use. In the lower District Court case on a motion for summary judgment, Arriba Soft was found to have violated copyright without a fair use defense in the use of thumbnail pictures and inline linking from Kelly's website in Arriba's image search engine. That decision was appealed and contested by Internet rights activists such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who argued that it is clearly covered under fair use.

On appeal, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of the defendant. In reaching its decision, the court utilized the above-mentioned four-factor analysis. First, it found the purpose of creating the thumbnail images as previews to be sufficiently transformative, noting that they were not meant to be viewed at high resolution like the original artwork was. Second, the fact that the photographs had already been published diminished the significance of their nature as creative works. Third, although normally making a "full" replication of a copyrighted work may appear to violate copyright, here it was found to be reasonable and necessary in light of the intended use. Lastly, the court found that the market for the original photographs would not be substantially diminished by the creation of the thumbnails. To the contrary, the thumbnail searches could increase exposure of the originals. In looking at all these factors as a whole, the court found that the thumbnails were fair use and remanded the case to the lower court for trial after issuing a revised opinion on July 7, 2003.

The above paragraph is an excerpt from Wikipedia fair use article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use )

Basically this site provides a blurb of an article (publicly accessible RSS feed) that causes the reader to go to the original content to read the article. Therefore the original content site gains a visitor and no value is diminished from their product.

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