Comments on: Randy Morin Issues Splogger Challenge

By: Plagiarism Today » Wrap Up: Game Guide Plagiarism

Plagiarism Today » Wrap Up: Game Guide Plagiarism — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:41:31 +0000

[...] This argument was bolstered, at least somewhat, by the presence of credit links on each of the articles. However, this incident has sparked a very heated debate on the issue of aggregation sites and their place in the blogging world. [...]

By: Toivo Lainevool

Toivo Lainevool — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:44:41 +0000

Randy,

Thanks for the correction. I guess I just assumed he was using your feed as well.

By: Toivo Lainevool

Toivo Lainevool — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:43:53 +0000

Joe, Aggregation certainly is a slippery slope. Its hard to tell what is "fair use" or not. In the comments, Randy had some interesting links to this: RSS and Copyright, circa 2006 More on RSS and Copyrights I think if you only excerpt, have proper attribution, seek permission, and supply an easy way to opt-out, things are fine.

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:40:08 +0000

Slight correction. The site is not copying my content. I only wish they were.

By: JoeChongq

JoeChongq — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:23:01 +0000

Aggregation sites are clearly on the darker side of the grey area. Some get permission to aggregate your posts which is fine. But many just repost whatever they feel like without attribution or backlinks. It is because of Aggregation sites that many people only publish truncated RSS feeds. While many people posted in the comments there that they find this kind of service useful, they are likely not providing any of that content. I don't make any money from my blog and no one else should be using my content to make money either. For those that do have ads, these aggregators are stealing their ad impressions. Spamhuntress includes a copyright notice at the bottom of her feeds. I include a image link so anyone reposting my feed will be linking back (assuming they don't strip out the link). Plagiarism Today has a guide on how to add footers to your feeds.