Any copyright issues using readability to render content to the client?

[longsangstan]

Hi,

I am making a news reader app and would like to implement a reader view using this module.

But I am wondering would it be infringing copy rights since the content has to go through my server before rendering to the client?

It is different from Apple's safari reader view/Adblock Plus since they are on the client side.

[haroldtreen]

This is more of a legal issue then a software issue and I'm doubtful many lawyers are watching this repo.

That being said, many services let you save articles to read later, let you deliver those articles to other devices. I wouldn't be worried (but I'm a clueless software person and not a lawyer )

[felipe-augusto]

I was thinking about the same question, and talked to a person that is familiar with intellectual property (in Brazil). She said to me that its has two componentes when you do that: the autoral rights and the explotation rights. For example, suppose you get a news article from The New York Times and then show it in your app, citing the source (i.e, The New York Times), you dont't break the autoral rights. The problem is that since almost all news sites gain money from ads, you are breaking the explotation rights, since you are depriving the original news site from views, and then, ads and money. So, theoretically they could sue you for that. But, as @haroldtreen mentioned, you should ask a lawyer that knows intellectual property and the specific legislation to help you with this question.