Comments on: 31 Days to Building a Better Blog – Day 17

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:01:22 +0000

I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that fair use is the issue here. I’m sure nobody has a problem with an excerpt of their posts being taken along with a link, but scraping like this is definitely a bit more of an issue, though still a gray area; for example, what about translations? My ‘7 Mistakes’ article early this week was translated into 2 other languages (that I know of); yes, they used my entire content, but at least they linked to me and had a legitamate purpose.

Of course, sometimes you read too much into things and run the risk of excusing a no-good, dirty content stealer. :)

By: yunasville

yunasville — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:37:13 +0000

Darren, maybe you should think about licensing your site and its contents. It’s OK if people copy paste, but they have to include the original source and link.. Anyway, there are many ways to protect internet intellectual materials. If anybody has any suggestions, please comment on!

By: Scott Randolph

Scott Randolph — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:17:23 +0000

Darren –

wanted to let you know that this guy:

java.mblogger.cn/shingu/story/18120.aspx

is scraping your content. I noticed him on a trackback to my site.

By: HART

HART — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:23:49 +0000

This takes the total of articles ….to 112 — with 78 reader submissions and 34 of my own.

Good Stuff and good reading. Say .. how’s shirt sales going? That page you’ve created ../31-days/ is quite helpful and organized.