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Originally Posted by bj
true scraper sites, which are pulling from my rss feed, since they have nothing else there except google ads, and people will click the attribution link
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Would sites like this, which are reposting RSS content and provide an attribution link, be considered scraper sites? The original purpose of RSS feeds was to make the content available in a portable platform so the data could be embedded in other places, including web sites. I strongly doubt that RSS content would even be subject to the DCMA because by nature of being placed in a document designed to be reprinted infers an intent for that data to be public domain, or at least an attribution license. I think what is being referred to here is essentially plagerism, where the content in one web site is cut and pasted into another without permission (such permission could be implicit when content is put into a feed) or attribution.
Disclaimers: IANAL and all opinions are IMO