08-05-2006, 05:09 AM
Hi Vicki,
from my understanding, when a publisher publishes an RSS feed, others are free to repurpose it, including reposting. i believe it's a matter of courtesy to include a backlink to the originating source.
--
regarding forum postings, copyright vests with the forum and the author and it can similarly be repurposed.
--
but he should credit the orig writer or say something along the lines of 'orig published in xyz forum"
--
from my understanding, when a publisher publishes an RSS feed, others are free to repurpose it, including reposting. i believe it's a matter of courtesy to include a backlink to the originating source.
--
regarding forum postings, copyright vests with the forum and the author and it can similarly be repurposed.
--
but he should credit the orig writer or say something along the lines of 'orig published in xyz forum"
--
vicki2 Wrote:Here's a question with regard to RSS feeds or similar. I know of one forum owner who has one site which is a straight forum with posts. He has another site which is a semi-blog thing but people post there. He lifts stuff from the blog site and moves it to the forum, but never credits the original writer ...it's posted as from him. I guess he can does this but it sort of smacks too.