On 11/3/05, Pete Prodoehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Meade wrote: > > I dunno I have a hard time with the "You're stealing this content" > > argument if you are in fact providing a feed on your site. A feed is > > MEANT to allow people to take and reassemble content. > > I think where we hit a gray area, is in the republishing of the content. > If I publish everything in your RSS feed, but wrap ads around it, are > you still cool with it? > > I mean, should I take each episode of Rocketboom and put it on a page of > my site surrounded with a dozen banner ads? ;) > > Should I take your content (via RSS) remove all the ads that make you > money, and replace them with ads that make me money and they publish that?
Well in these cases the republishing would be violating the CC license I have. So I would have a problem with it. (unless I specifically released a site to do so). But just the pure republishing of feed data within the the license ... no, I wouldn't have a problem with that. I didn't really see any adverts on that page. It just seems to me that if you are actively providing a feed, you are actively PERMITTING the syndication of content. You cant then say "Well I didn't want YOU to click on my feed button ... but others are ok to do so." and expect to win any legal case. If a person just takes my feed and follows the the spirit of the CC license then, no I wouldn't have a problem with it. I guess my thoughts are "no harm no foul" ... If you made a feed ... it's going to feed things. So long as those things don't use it for commercial purposes and break your cc license ... GREAT - your feed is doing exactly what you must have expected it to do. /shrug - Dave -- http://www.DavidMeade.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/