RSS Rights

A lot of talk has been going on inside the WebmasterRadio.fm Chatroom a while back about whether people should be allowed to copy/syndicate someone’s RSS Feed without permission (either given on the website or received from user). I decided to put in my thoughts and what I perceive publishing an RSS Feed would mean.

First of all, people use RSS Feeds to display the title/summary of new posts that are used in Vista Gadgets or FireFox Plugins. If a blog decides to publish an RSS Feed that displays the entire content of their post, they are basically asking for people to scrape their content.

However, if you are insistent on publishing an RSS Feed that displays all your information since you would prefer for people to scrape your content, include a link to your website at the bottom of all your posts in your RSS Feeds.

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