Originally Posted by
jimmyscoular
This "news aggregator" thing has always been a mind bender. If you were to print a newspaper in which you simple reprinted articles from other publications you would clearly be in copyright violation, unless you paid them for the right to re-publish their work. News aggregation sites do much the same thing through links, as do search engines. And yet . . . it's a little different. Mind bender.
Bottom line for me: Yes, if the information you link to brings you commercial profit, then you should probably share that profit with the creators of the content.