Comments on: A question about mashups and CreativeCommons licenses

By: Craig Rosa

Craig Rosa — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:06:17 +0000

I was not aware of the CC licensing possibilities for RSS – I am going to check that out!

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:35:43 +0000

“mashup” sounds like a professional wrestling thing. you’re not wrestling, are you?

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:44:29 +0000

It’s no problem. Thank you for the correction. I realize now that my original comment was a LOT more harsh than I wanted it to sound. I should never post anything until I’ve had my coffee.

I think I’ll make that my new rule.

Sorry if I came across as being more upset.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:16:34 +0000

Not a problem Jonathan. I appreciate the correction and the distinctions you make in your second article. Well said!

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:17:55 +0000

I believe that you are strongly misinterpreting my article. I was NOT saying that RSS feeds are public domain. They are certainly not. I was simply saying that that is how Dapper treats RSS feeds in its default setting. That was a criticism of Dapper.

For more information on RSS feeds, implied license and why scraping is NOT acceptable, see this article on my site:

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/08/29/why-rss-scraping-isnt-ok/

Very sorry for the confusion.