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Re: [syndication] Worrisome trend in syndication content

Dave Winer wrote:


Imagine my surprise when I found that pointer led to my site.
tinyurl is just a shortcut mechanism, so uris don'g get too long in email or in web pages (mapquest and amazon links just get ridiculsly long). Don't read too much into that, I use tinyurl a lot.
Legal stuff aside, how do you feel about syndication of content via RSS, and how should apps like daypop determine if a feed should not be syndicated? Is it ok to run agents on such content (i.e. daypop has a search, Mark has his difference engine, some O'reilly feeds seem to simply be syndicated aggregates of other feeds)? Very little content is actually syndicated (i.e. published, gathered by an intermediary, and then republished), maybe the syndication model is not what the world needs -- maybe its publish-subscribe? Many web sites, like http://tinyurl.com/gm3s, forbid syndication in their terms of use. However, they don't publish RSS or echo feeds. 

Doug



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

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?

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.

Doug




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