Re: [syndication] Worrisome trend in syndication content

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Imagine my surprise when I found that pointer led to my site.

I think Mark has stopped running his app, which would be a good thing.

I also have asked for guidance from some of the lawyers I work with. They
are very interested in this issue, and were interested before this came up.
Here's a citation:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2003/04/07

John is the executive director at Berkman.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug" <doug.ransom@alumni.uvic.ca>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:53 PM
Subject: [syndication] Worrisome trend in syndication content


> A popular blogger has expressed concern about services or agents which
> syndicate their content:  http://tinyurl.com/glqg
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> Is this going to be a problem now?  How are agents to tell what
> content they may or may not syndicate?  With RSS 1, do agents need to
> examine the license information and interpret it?  With RSS 2, can
> agents really be expected to intrepret non-rdf metadata to figure this
> stuff out?
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> I hope for new syndication formats like echo, the act of providing an
> feed is considered granting free license to syndicate content.  IMO if
> you put content on the web, people are free to quote it, mark it up,
> cache it, etc.  But that is a moral position;  I don't know what the
> law s say.
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> Doug
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