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Re: [syndication] revenue


Editor wrote:
As a publisher - albeit self funded startup - I own my content and derive my income from it (I wish). Is this what we mean by notification Mike? 
no. By notification, I mean a service we (will) provide to our users,
warning them by mail or IM that the content of a news feed has changed.


Lets forsake the legitimacy of copyright law in this instance for
simplicity.
This means that I need to know what use my service providers are making of my content, and how much revenue they make of it. It's the only way I can know if their gratuity is fair. 
have you tried asking moreover about that? I mean they have been
selling your content since day one, it's not new to the recent
change in their terms of service.
Let's assume - for argument's sake - that Moreover harvests one million headlines per day , and their profits from headlines distribution fees to third parties is one million internet dollars per > day, (they wish) , I really want to claim my percentage proportional 
to the number of headlines that I produced that day.

then you want dollars from Google when it serves links to your site?
I need to reiterate that it is unfair for aggregators - especially if they have decent investors - to make a profit out of content, 
we don't have your content. You have it. We tell people about it!
The difference with Google is that - to my knowledge - their revenues come from hiring out their own search algorithm (their intellectual property) and from advertising. They do not supply content for websites. To me there is a huge difference 
wrong: yahoo! searches the web using the technology AND THE DATA
that Google licensed to them (as did Inktomi before them). Doing
a good database is difficult. Doing a good search engine on
that database even more so. Doing the spidering and indexing
stuff is even worse. That's Google's expertise. They license the
bulk of that at a high price.

Same goes for moreover: they build feeds which have more value
than any of the individual sources they use to build them. They
license those feeds, the searching, et al. at a high price (get
a quotation if you don't believe me).



Mike

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