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June 3, 2005

Call to RSS Publishers: Best Practices for Republishing Syndicated Content

As already noted, ripping off syndicated content for commerical purposes without RSS publisher consent is becoming an increasing problem in the RSS world.

Jason Calacanis, one of the largest blog (and consequently RSS) publishers just added his thoughts, giving us the publishing perspective of the problem.

Certainly one of the problems is that right now there are no established best practices to govern the republishing of RSS syndicated content. It's about time to make them.

I'm calling out to all RSS publishers to put down your comments (below) on what are acceptable republishing practices as far as you are concerned. In the end, we can take these and come to some sort of consensus on what constitutes best practices and guidelines for everyone.

If you decide to participate, please evade terms such as "non-commercial use", but be concrete in what you allow and what you do not allow.

Thank you.

Comments

To start the conversation, here are my requirements for re-publishing my content:

You may republish all the content from my RSS feeds, but only under the following rules:

a] You may not publish the full-text of the content items, but only an excerpt or summary, which is not to be more than 30% of the entire content of the content item.

b] Full attribution must be given, plus a link back to the original article on the site.

c] Articles that are available for full-text re-publishing are especially marked as being such.

d] I do not mind if you post ads next to my content, as long as you abide by the rules above.

Posted by: Rok Hrastnik at June 3, 2005 10:11 AM

I have written many times on this subject. I think because RSS feeds are posted in directories and online readers the content tends to be thought of as public domain. Therefore I think there needs to be an education of webmasters about this subject.

The points you have made I agree with. There needs to be a simple and easy to understand set of rules for republishing. Perhaps a republishing tag needs to be added to feeds in the header.

Posted by: Allan Burns at June 3, 2005 11:55 AM

Because of the vast differences between what different publishers wish their feeds to be used for and between the laws of different jurisdictions, this issue isn't as easy to address as it may seem at first blush. I'm no expert on international copyright law, but others who know more than me brought this issue up int eh IETF Atom Working Group when we were discussing whether to put machine readable rights statements into the Atom format, and as I recall, the difficulty or impossibility of coming up with something that would work everywhere was the primary reason that we decided to ignore the issue completely and opt for just an element for making textual rights statement.

DRM or other machine readable rights specification was left to extensions. Back in March, I started designing such a machine readable extension, though if I finish it, I don't intend to define it as being usable for making legally binding rights statements--just advisory statements with an optional link to a legal document. If you click my name below, you'll see my blog post with some examples of what the extension elements might look like.

As for my position on the issue of republishing others' feeds--I have no problem with people republishing my headlines and an excerpt from my content as long as they link back to the source of the content from within the republished data (for example, by making the headline a link). I don't particularly care whether they publish attribution--the link takes care of that as far as I'm concerned--as long as they don't imply that they created the content. As for the length of the excerpt, I haven't really thought hard about that, but I don't publish full content feeds, so at present that's not something I need to consider--republishing everything in the feed is okay by me. I don't care whether people make money off of republishing my content either, as long as they're not putting advertising inside my content--beside, above, or below is fine.

Posted by: Antone Roundy at June 3, 2005 2:56 PM

I agree with the a b c d points and also with Antone about "no ads inside".
My questions is : what happens with the republishing of republished content? And what about wild translations without even a "merci to xxx, original author"?

Posted by: Gabrielle Guichard at June 3, 2005 6:32 PM

Thank you Rok for bringing this up again.

I have myself raised the issue publicly multiple times, suggesting two key things:

a) a clearinghouse for RSS content that allowed clear and unambiguos tagging of content for specific re-use rights. Any of the major players in the RSS search engines/directory field such as Technorati, Feedster, PubSub, Bloglines or others would be all well positioned to do this. Please see: http://tinyurl.com/5umhc

b) wide adoption of Amazon A9 SyndicationRight extension that allows to unambiguosly declare whether an RSS feed is available for full re-use and syndication or not. SyndicationRight is the new descriptor that lets us know if our search results can be distributed. Licenses include open, limited, private, closed, or optional. Please see: http://tinyurl.com/7jtdx (By the way, check how A9 can now search my full RSS archive contents by going to http://www.a9.com/ , clicking on Add or Search More Columns, and adding in the subsequent box the word "robingood". Now try a search.)

Posted by: Robin Good at June 13, 2005 9:14 AM

Hi,
I am new to podcasting, but I regard my podcasts the same way I regard my other creative works, e.g. my writing, songs or photographs. Just because I release a podcast does not make it public domain. Like other creative works, I consider it to be automatically copyrighted and protected, UNLESS I specifically give away those rights. That means under the U.S. copyright laws only I have the right to make a derivative work or sell the materials. However, just as with books and newspapers, users do have the right to reproduce the matierals for educational purposes and the like without infringing upon my copyright.
What I am talking about here is basic respect for my work. I have gone to the time and trouble of writing the podcast text, recording it, publishing it and advertising it. If anyone is to profit, should it not be me? If I choose to give it away, it is because I want lots of people to enjoy it. It is only fair if someone has a plan to make money, they would let me know. Since I own the material, I need to decide what should be done. Perhaps we both can benefit.
That's my two cents. Thanks.

Posted by: Cheryl Rogers at February 19, 2006 7:15 PM

My two cents...

If you only want 30% republished, only put 30% of your text in the feed. A webmaster should be able to limit that.

If you don't want your stuff republished, try another medium, such as a mailing list. Remember an xml/rss or Atom feed is human readable. It is also optional. If you don't want to sendicate your site, please don't create a feed.

If you don't mind your stuff being republished, insert ads into your feed.

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