{"id":1074,"date":"2007-02-25T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T16:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2007-04-12T21:13:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T04:13:56","slug":"feed-guarding-protecting-your-weblog-content-from-theft-or-worse-fates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1074\/feed-guarding-protecting-your-weblog-content-from-theft-or-worse-fates\/","title":{"rendered":"Feed guarding: Protecting your weblog content from theft — or worse fates . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the dark days before the turn of the millennium, if you saw something I had written, down at the bottom there would be a little addendum: “Join my email update list.” If you did this, you would get a copy of every new essay or story I wrote at the time that I made it public. Not as convenient (or as annoying) as a Listserv, but you wouldn’t have to scrounge around on Usenet to find my deathless prose. Back then, a lot of people distributed content this way.<\/p>\n

Dave Winer<\/a>, the Tesla<\/a> of weblogging, saw how stupid this was and invented a much more efficient alternative: RSS syndication<\/a>. Instead of an email pushed<\/i> from an email client, an email of updated content was pulled<\/i> from a newsreader. Not only would I not have to undertake any special effort to send the email, you could receive it only if, as and when you wanted it. Genius!<\/p>\n

What’s important about this is that, from the standpoint of my copyright to my original content, nothing has changed. Before I was pushing emails to individual readers. Now individual readers are pulling emails. But, simply because an RSS feed is easy to obtain, easy to repurpose, easy to resyndicate — this does not imply that I have waived any rights to my intellectual property.<\/p>\n

People sometimes argue that RSS syndication creates a gray area in IP law. It doesn’t. In the United States, a transmissible work of the mind is presumed by default to be copyright protected<\/a>. The presumption is rebuttable — for example by a waiver of copyright. But if you have not waived the rights to your work, you do not need to assert them by filing a copyright notice or by appending a copyright symbol to your work product. Your work is yours, and, except for fair uses for non-commercial purposes — e.g., a quote with a link in a weblog post — no one has the right to republish your content without your expressed permission.<\/p>\n

So: Your fine young weblog gets splogged: Your feed is “scraped” and republished with a lot of creepy Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the dark days before the turn of the millennium, if you saw something I had written, down at the bottom there would be a little addendum: “Join my email update list.” If you did this, you would get a copy of every new essay or story I wrote at the time that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-weblogging-101","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2285,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2285\/weblogging-without-chains-a-bloodhoundblog-unchained-introduction-to-viral-hyper-specific-real-estate-weblogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":1074,"position":0},"title":"Weblogging without chains: A BloodhoundBlog Unchained introductory podcast to viral, hyper-specific real estate weblogging","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The podcast linked below is a piece of a conversation Brian Brady and I had today about styles of real estate weblogging that make sense in the onrushing world of social media marketing. 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