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Mirroring channels and copyright

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How republishing differs from quoting, when it becomes infringement and how to run an aggregator without collecting complaints.

Mirroring channels and copyright

Moving posts from other channels into yours is standard for aggregators and straightforward infringement for authored writing. What matters is what exactly gets moved.

What is protected

Authored text, photographs, video, layout. A bare fact is not: «the currency rose» is nobody's intellectual property, while a specific analysis of that rise is.

Where the line runs

  • A full copy with no link — infringement whatever the topic.
  • A quote with attribution — acceptable in reasonable proportion.
  • A fact retold in your own words — your text, no issue.
  • A copy with the author's credit removed — the worst case: deliberate concealment on top of the infringement.

Who receives the complaint

The channel owner, not the tool. «The software did it» has never worked anywhere: whoever's channel publishes, publishes.

Running an aggregator calmly

Sources as raw material, your own headline and comment on top, a link to the original at the end. That format is both lawful and more useful to the reader: they get a curated selection with your judgement rather than a copy.

Strip other people's links and mentions from republished posts as well, or you are advertising someone else's channel in yours for free. That is a setting, not a manual task — see the automation page.

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