Comments on: Blogdigger copyright http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/blogdigger-copyright/ sharing ideas thoughts and feedback Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: NickD http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/blogdigger-copyright/#comment-1647 Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:48:32 +0100 http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/blogdigger-copyright/#comment-1647 If you don't want your content "stolen," don't feature RSS feeds. You are supplying a feed so that the content can be resyndicated in any way anyone wants to resyndicated. You should provide RSS feeds only when you assume this will happen, and not complain about it when it does. I think we are going to see more "headline only" feeds soon as a result of ads and "feed stealing." How can we preemptively keep what happened with e-mail from happening with RSS? Maybe it won’t matter if the content is good enough. If you don’t want your content “stolen,” don’t feature RSS feeds. You are supplying a feed so that the content can be resyndicated in any way anyone wants to resyndicated. You should provide RSS feeds only when you assume this will happen, and not complain about it when it does. I think we are going to see more “headline only” feeds soon as a result of ads and “feed stealing.” How can we preemptively keep what happened with e-mail from happening with RSS? Maybe it won’t matter if the content is good enough.

]]> by: Greg Gershman http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/blogdigger-copyright/#comment-1646 Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:54:12 +0100 http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/blogdigger-copyright/#comment-1646 Good points; regarding the copyright/ads, of course original content owners retain copyright of their content, and we do not modify that content at all, but as you point out, we do provide the service, which is technically where the ads go. When we first started this, everyone told us that we should send as much of the content along as we could. Since ads in feeds have begun (not just ours, but anyones) this raised a further issue of would a content owner like the ads to be resyndicated or not (if you put Ads for Feeds in Library Clips, its possible we will resyndicate your ad, which will potentiall make you money, not us; and we will never replace your ad with our ad...our ads appear as seperate RSS items). As things mature, it is likely that we will reduce the amount of content coming through our system (in the free, non-commercial feeds), since this is beginning to seem more appropriate. But you are right to point out, we're trying to keep everyone's best interests in mind (which, although not fiat, is a consideration in US copyright law), but the general potential for abuse is there. Good points; regarding the copyright/ads, of course original content owners retain copyright of their content, and we do not modify that content at all, but as you point out, we do provide the service, which is technically where the ads go.

When we first started this, everyone told us that we should send as much of the content along as we could. Since ads in feeds have begun (not just ours, but anyones) this raised a further issue of would a content owner like the ads to be resyndicated or not (if you put Ads for Feeds in Library Clips, its possible we will resyndicate your ad, which will potentiall make you money, not us; and we will never replace your ad with our ad…our ads appear as seperate RSS items). As things mature, it is likely that we will reduce the amount of content coming through our system (in the free, non-commercial feeds), since this is beginning to seem more appropriate.

But you are right to point out, we’re trying to keep everyone’s best interests in mind (which, although not fiat, is a consideration in US copyright law), but the general potential for abuse is there.

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