Comments on: RSS, copyright, and licenses http://aralbalkan.com/780 Changing the world through technology and oratory. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:44:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Stefan Richter http://aralbalkan.com/780/comment-page-1#comment-6796 Stefan Richter Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:13:55 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/780#comment-6796 You've touched on a subject that has many people thinkign these days. I've read an article on econtentmag on this topic recently http://tinyurl.com/tpahf and it comes to similar conclusions - something needs to happen. An RSS feed is your (or my) content and while I would expect individuals to subscribe to it I wouldn't fing it funny if someone aggregated my feed and slapped ads next to it. Aggregators are ok as long as I submit my feed to them, not the other way round. If feeds were free for all I could start a dozen sites tomorrow with high quality content, for free. Can't be right can it? I also noticed more and more sites are now starting to putting usage restrictions and copyright notices next to their feeds. Example: http://today.reuters.com/rss/newsrss.aspx Stefan You’ve touched on a subject that has many people thinkign these days. I’ve read an article on econtentmag on this topic recently http://tinyurl.com/tpahf and it comes to similar conclusions - something needs to happen.

An RSS feed is your (or my) content and while I would expect individuals to subscribe to it I wouldn’t fing it funny if someone aggregated my feed and slapped ads next to it. Aggregators are ok as long as I submit my feed to them, not the other way round. If feeds were free for all I could start a dozen sites tomorrow with high quality content, for free. Can’t be right can it?

I also noticed more and more sites are now starting to putting usage restrictions and copyright notices next to their feeds. Example: http://today.reuters.com/rss/newsrss.aspx

Stefan

]]> By: GaBuBu http://aralbalkan.com/780/comment-page-1#comment-6350 GaBuBu Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:36:43 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/780#comment-6350 totally agree with you. totally agree with you.

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