News Aggregation Or Stolen Content?
A couple weeks ago Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly.com posted about aggregation feeds here, and a few months earlier here. I left a brief comment with my opinion on the first one.
A few aggregator sites use my feed; one even asked my permission before doing so. Another one, DNHeadlines, sent me a courteous email informing me of their adding my feed and giving me the opportunity to deny it. Which I didn’t. I believe well designed aggregators like these can provide value to the domaining community.
But there are some sites out there that just plain ole steal content and provide absolutely no value. I started receiving pingbacks from one such site this week. That site is lp6.net. Scroll to the bottom to see who owns it and visit his main site.
This site has “domain name trends” plastered at the top of the page and uses feeds, including mine, to display full articles without any linkbacks or credit.
Other domaining sites lp6.net rips off:
TheDomains.com
DomainNameNews.com
DomainFlipper.com
fka200.com
DMueller.com
RickLatona.com
There may be more, but I stopped looking.
Now, this isn’t something I would normally post about. This is something where I would just send him an email and move on. But what prompted to post is this comment from the about page of his own main website:
- “commerical [sic] use of web site code and content is strictly prohibited unless authorized by me. Non-commerical use and modification is permitted provided that my name and a link to *********.com is displayed with the content. All derivative works must adhere to this license.”
Emphasis by me.
I dunno, it just rubs me the wrong way that he posts this in his about page while actually doing it to others.
i am very curious, how does everyone feel about sites like this? I’d like to know whether you run a blog or not, in fact I’m curious if non-bloggers have a different opinion. Am I overreacting here?
EDIT:
A little over an hour after posting this, the site was taken down and parked.
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I don’t think your over reacting. You created the content and you should have control with the if and how its republished. Here is a basic summary of the law with regard to this issue.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which is a United States copyright law which helps to protect the rights of copyright owners as well as the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA), a portion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act known as DMCA 512 or the DMCA takedown provisions, which is a 1998 United States federal law that provides a safe harbor to online service providers (OSPs, including Internet service providers) that promptly take down content if someone alleges it infringes their copyrights.
Just simply send notice of the copyright violation to his hosting company and they should take down the site to avoid liability on their own behalf.
Alan
Interesting… I’ve been extremely busy with huge projects and haven’t been taking a look at referrals… but I just checked and I see nothing from that domain and it looks like it just went parked.
Possibly a domaining.com reader who read this post?
My solution to this when I first started the blog was to just limit my RSS content characters so the whole article doesn’t come up with the feed. At least the whole articles aren’t being copy pasted… I hope. THATS what gets me extremely ticked off.
Haven’t been updating the blog as much as I’d like to, so I don’t feel as affected as others.
Thanks for mentioning this. Something I’m hoping to keep my eye open for as I slowly revive the blog back to where it used to be :).
The guilty is Google. After they launched Adsense and accepted almost anybody and any site in their program the practivce of “site scrapping” became very popular. The net is now full of people looking for content to can place AdSense ads.
Now copy few posts is not the worst, I have seen sites/services entirely duplicated and marketed while the original owners deseperated were unable to do anything against that due the authors were in some asian countries.
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Regarding RSS:
It’s true we first asked permission before show any feed in domaining.com but it’s more by courtesy then anything else.
By offering an RSS feed you accept that anyone coul read and publish this content without having to ask you a permission. I don’t think any of the free or not free RSS readers never asked you permission to show your feed. Now I think that legally the post must show who is the author and optionally offer a way to access the original content through a link (to check).
The solution is what Sammy says:
Only offer in the RSS what you accept to be read/published.
Some offer a snippet, others, a summary, others the full post. It’s up to you.
Recently Elliot that was showing the full feed decided to only show a snippet to attract more visitors to his site and offer more exposure to his sponsors.
This is indeed very scary. It is like one man does the work, and another gets the reward.
This adsense monetization is getting a bit out of control.