RSS Feeds – Automatic Permission to Republish Blog Content?
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What started out as a question about someone stealing my blog content has become a WordPress question in my mind. That is because it now involves allowing RSS feeds of my WordPress.com blog.
I was successfully able to get a page removed from a site that had lifted my content through an RSS feed. I talked to the CEO of Mojo hosting, the host for the page. I was told to contact the blog owner. I did. The page was removed.
Thinking all was settled, I received this additional reply from Mojo billing. I need to know if publishing my blog content through WordPress grants legal permission for someone to republish it as is stated here…
“I have already notified him so you don’t need to do anything further. Beyond that, there’s more conversation here than I really have the time to but suffice to say most if not all of what was republished was done so with credit to the author and from wordpress sites that made the RSS feed available which he just plugged into his site. That’s the whole premise of RSS feeds, really.”
Cheers,
Brad
Either these people don’t understand what plagiarism and copyright infringement is, or a person cannot author original content on blogs with RSS feeds without essentially donating their works to the public domain. Please tell me which is true.
Thank you,
CS
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NO.
NO NO NO NO.
RSS is a way of publishing so that people can READ your blog, not so that people can STEAL your blog. This is a common misdirection/lie that people use when they’ve been caught. The guy at unix.fu has been using it for weeks now, and he knows damn well that it’s not true. Maybe Brad is only taking the guy’s word for things, maybe not.
Either way, Brad is either lying or incredibly, incredibly poorly informed. The first time he crosses paths with a lawyer he will learn, to his great cost, the error he has made.
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Sorry, I’m not peeved at you, but I really want to bitchslap the complacent and the malignant who use this excuse.
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Go to options > discussion and set your RSS feed to “summary” and to only display 1 post, that way if they do scrape it, they only get a summary and not your entire post.
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Okay then! Hooray for the good guys!
BTW I sent the address of this thread in my reply to Brad in billing. Thanks and I will change my rss options pronto!
CS
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Nobody tells Will Smith that putting his movies out on DVD is permission to republish them for free. And your blog is at least as good as the latest Will Smith movie!
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