Different display per publisher.
OdinBox News is ad-supported and commercial. Not every publisher's RSS terms welcome that, so we tailor card display per source. This page documents who falls into which bucket — and why.
Tiers and display rules
BBC, Guardian, Al Jazeera, NPR — outlets that publish RSS specifically for syndication. Full display: headline + attribution + our AI summary.
The default tier. RSS publication is itself an opt-in to indexing; headline aggregation with attribution + link-back is industry-norm. Our AI summary (generated from the headline alone, not the body) is a separate transformative work — shown alongside.
Outlets whose ToS restrict commercial reuse. We publish their headline + outbound link only — no AI summary on cards or listings. We act purely as a signpost driving traffic to the source. Most Korean major newspapers + broadcasters live here.
Reuters, AP, AFP, Bloomberg — wires that license content commercially. We render headline + link only and treat the source as a candidate for auto-deactivation. Reactivated only with a paid contract; default for free-tier operation is conservative.
Why we think this is defensible
- 1Article bodies never stored. Only headline + URL hit our DB. The AI summary is generated from the headline alone — a transformative second-layer work, not an excerpt.
- 2RSS = public-by-design. Korea's 2023 unfair competition statute explicitly excludes "publicly disclosed information"; publishing an RSS feed is itself an implicit syndication opt-in.
- 3Korean precedent. Body + site-structure copying is unfair competition (잡코리아 v. 사람인, 야놀자 v. 여기어때) — but headline + link aggregation falls under deep-linking and has multiple favorable rulings.
- 4Naver / Daum / Google News do the same. Major aggregators sometimes negotiate contracts with publishers, but no single law mandates it for everyone.
- 5We err on the conservative side. We're a small site with no interest in litigation. The 4-tier classification is our best effort to honor each publisher's stated stance.
For publishers
If our tier classification is wrong, you'd prefer a different tier, or you want to be removed entirely — one email, processed within 24 hours. Publisher intent always wins.
🤖 We honor robots.txt
Our RSS fetcher identifies as Mozilla/5.0 ... (+https://odinbox-news.com/about). Disallow that User-Agent token in your /robots.txt and we drop you from the next cron pass.
If our cached entries persist after you've blocked us, ping the takedown form — we deactivate + purge within 24h.