Comments on: RootsFeed Update http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/ The ultimate site for your genealogy blog Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robin Foster McClure http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5120 Robin Foster McClure Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:05:53 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5120 RT @webduck: RootsFeed Update | GeneaBloggers http://su.pr/1OQv6K #RT #genealogy

]]> By: Tonia Kendrick http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5119 Tonia Kendrick Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:44:16 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5119 RT @webduck: RootsFeed Update | GeneaBloggers http://su.pr/1OQv6K #RT #genealogy

]]> By: Carol Wilkerson http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5118 Carol Wilkerson Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:57:36 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5118 RootsFeed Update | GeneaBloggers http://su.pr/1OQv6K #RT #genealogy

]]> By: Tonia Kendrick http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5117 Tonia Kendrick Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:04:05 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5117 Thanks for staying on this, Thomas, and thanks for the additional copyright language. Your help is much appreciated!

]]> By: geneabloggers http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5112 geneabloggers Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:36:36 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5112 RootsFeed update and why you should beef up your copyright statement http://su.pr/1RJG7H #genealogy

]]> By: Heather Rojo http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5116 Heather Rojo Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:01:07 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5116 Dear John M. at TransDutch- I don’t have an RSS feed on my blog, and my blog is one that was splogged. I have no idea why my blog or anyone else’s blog was “chosen” by this website. Lucky me…

]]> By: Liz http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5115 Liz Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:26:19 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5115 Elyse gave a recent heads-up about a splog you posted about earlier: easy-genealogy.com — looks like they are still lifting content, including some from fellow geneabloggers … :(

]]> By: TransDutch http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5114 TransDutch Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:22:05 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5114 It may not be possible to add a copyright notice to the header of a blog feed. At least, my search for a plugin comes up empty. It’s easy to add it to the footer, but of course, if they’re only quoting the first few paragraphs, that will be cut off.

]]> By: TransDutch http://geneabloggers.com/rootsfeed-update/#comment-5113 TransDutch Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:06:09 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=7513#comment-5113 I suspect Rootsfeed believes that the short quote falls within ‘fair use’ guidelines. Though the fact they aren’t quoting for review/educational purposes, but solely for commercial purposes, does make a difference.

One issue is that the only blogs they are ‘syndicating’ are likely those that use RSS feeds. Because I assume that’s where they’re getting the content. And we as bloggers use RSS to make syndication ‘really simple.’ We want people to be able to view our blogs through Google Reader, Bloglines, Newsgator, etc.

It’s the commercial aspect (and confusing attribution) of Rootsfeed that is the problem, not the syndication aspect. For if it is the syndication aspect, it is possible not to allow RSS.

I also believe it is possible to put a header on your feed that provides a copyright message. That way if they do take it, the copyright message should appear at the top.

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