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Copyright Notice in RSS Feed

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fingerprint.gifIf you are reading thingelstad.com via the RSS feed you will notice that I have added a copyright notice creative commons license to the feed, along with a digital fingerprint and for fun the IP address of the machine that pulled in your RSS feed. I’m doing this to fight back against website hijacking.

I’m noticing a lot of my content being stolen via my RSS feed and then republished on spammer websites. This is a slimy practice and is a growing trend. Lorelle wrote on this at some length recently. I decided to do something about it with the ©Feed WordPress plug-in.

I went out of my way to just put the copyright notice creative commons license in a regular HTML block at the end of the post. I decided to post about this to encourage others to consider adding this if their content is being stolen, and to let you know why the copyright notice creative commons license has appeared.

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  1. I haven’t been super-current on IP law lately, but seem to remember a rule of thumb that you should always have “All Rights Reserved” following the copyright notice.

    This is probably different if you were going with one of the Creative Commons releases.

    Rick Cochrane

    5 Dec 07 at 8:40 am

  2. Rick! Thank you for pointing this out, but more importantly thanks for highlighting that I wasn’t using Creative Commons. I didn’t even think about it and should have. I’ve now switched the attribution and wording to using the Creative Commons license. I’ve also added the appropriate information to the footer of the site, in addition to the RSS feed.

    Whew — thanks for keeping me on my toes!

    Jamie

    6 Dec 07 at 10:21 pm

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