Rok,
I think this is a perfect "oath" for Internet marketers to take. If this medium is going to eclipse more traditional forms then there has to be a moral foundation. I am a firm believer of passing on the ideas of others to my audience and giving them full credit--I believe doing so not only helps the other side disseminate their ideas but also gives me a chance to add my expertise on top of theirs by commenting on their ideas.

Also, I think that blogs are appropriate for small quotes and short comments and that newsletters are the more appropriate venue for reprinting full text articles (with the author's permission, of course). In fact, RSS feeds provide a great way for these authors to keep up on each other's work and to share ideas.

I love your book, Rok. It was worth every penny. Keep up the great work.

Seems to me the publishers who have a challenge with this must not be publishing for purposes of creating a profit. If they were you would think the additional exposure would be welcomed.

And it this were to be disallowed or discouraged in any way, wouldn't that be an early end to the RSS NewMaster idea?

"And it this were to be disallowed or discouraged in any way, wouldn't that be an early end to the RSS NewMaster idea?"

Well, I'm sure that most publishers will happy to have their content redistributed (that was the original intention of RSS anyway), given appropriate attribution and with a limited number of words, of course.

But there will always be some that will object, and the copyrights management metata proposed by A9 just might do the trick.

I think RSS usage is one of the hottest issues right now, there are discussions of different sites how RSS feeds should be used and what is the right way to display the information placed inside them.

Let's say someone else uses your content and has Adsense at the same time on their site. But what about Googlebot, it will most likely crawl your site and add it to their database. If a user searches for a word that is linked to his site, not only will his posts appear in the search results, but Google will make some $ off the ads they sell. Isn't that almost the same thing?

Basically, I agree with you Rok if you use someone else content you need to give them full credit, that includes as you say link to the original source, copyright message, if available, no full text articles (even though I don't see the point to put your full content in RSS, the main goal to every site is to get visitors isn?t that right?)

And lastly I would like to mention that I have a RSS directory, RSSHut, which includes, for right now only news sites, and even though I use Adsense you cannot see the content of RSS feed if you don't have an account, which is free. I haven't had any problems for now ... who knows, tomorrow someone from Yahoo or CNN can send me a letter remove our feeds or we'll sue you a** :)

P.S. I have sent emails to CNN, Yahoo, and Wired and haven?t had any response, so I guess they just don?t care.

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