The buccaneers that have been pirating inFlightHQ’s RSS feed to republish our content with their own ads aren’t backing down. Despite my callout, the snarky post, and Byron’s follow up, the lubbers continue to steal from us.
This is a problem blogosphere wide and there’s nothing good about it, aside from the fact that it allows me to break out the pirate lingo. But swashbuckling aside, there are a lot of sites out there that do this. Business Logs has a couple of great posts [1, 2] about the issue.
So we’ll be taking the advice of one of our readers and including copyright notices in our RSS feeds from now on. And if those mangy sea dogs try to edit out that copyright notice, they may just have to deal with a crew of miscreants that would shiver the timbers of Bluebeard himself.
I am in the process of trying to dig up a top-tier copyright attorney who would be willing to do a podcast interview with me about companies’ legal rights are when this sort of thing happens to their blog. If anyone knows someone who would be good for me to talk to, leave me a comment and I’ll get in touch with them.
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