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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