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They crawl news articles from site like CNN, FOX,... and serve them via an API for a fee. Isn't this a textbook case for copyright infringement? Does simply following robots.txt, as they claim, give you automatic immunity against copyright infringement?

I'm curious as I would like to create a similar service and am seriously concerned about the legal side of things.

Do any SaaS companies use "Request Demo" or "Contact Sales" to offer different prices to different customers for the exact same product? e.g. "If customer is a startup I sell ONE license at $50 but if it's enterprise I'll sell ONE at $5,000 just because I know they can afford it..."