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Re: Excerpts, Scraping and Fair Use

plagiarismtoday — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:14:52 -0000

It's a tough question there are no easy answers to. The reason is that courts have really not taken this one up and it doesn't seem likely that a case is going to reach a court any time in the near future. The consensus seems to be that it is definitely spam and immoral, but due to the small amount of work being used, there is a strong fair use argument (though not necessarily a dead ringer) and that, combined with the limited damage, makes them not much worthy of targeting.

My attitude is that there are enough full feed scrapers still to keep most of us busy for some time, going after the partial ones as anything other than a spam blog seems to be a waste to me.

Hopefully we can get to a point though where they are the greatest of our worries.

Re: Excerpts, Scraping and Fair Use

1001noisycameras — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:20:20 -0000

Great article as always!

I have a question to raise: It's one thing to quote a source occasionally or when relevant, but how about semi-legitimate scrapers that do this repeatedly and create individual pages that consist of content that is scraped from a single source? And in some instances from what I have seen, they include every single post. So they are essentially creating a "mirror" of the original source.

Re: Rumors Persist That Two Models Will Replace Canon 5D

asabet — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:05:34 -0000

Good point! Canon and Nikon have a long history of doing just that.

Re: Rumors Persist That Two Models Will Replace Canon 5D

1001noisycameras — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:53:01 -0000

I think because they introduced the 50D under the D300, it seems that they have left themselves enough room for two DSLRs between the 50D and the 1D-series. So instead of going head to head, they seem to be playing checkers :)

Re: louisgray.com: Roll Your Own Blog Leaderboard With Google Reader Trends

1001noisycameras — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:51:13 -0000

I discovered this yesterday, and liked the idea so much that I created one today! It's a fun exercise! I combined shared+starred+reads, but gave the reads a lower weight.

@Svetlana Gladkova, how about a normalized leaderboard, where the number of shared posts is divided by the total number of posts during the month? That way a blog with 500 monthly posts and 50 shared would be equal to a blog with 50 monthly posts and 5 shared?

Re: Most Bloggers Don’t Deserve Ad Revenue: What About Startups?

1001noisycameras — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:31:13 -0000

In a way, one should think of a blog in financial terms as a nano-startup (pre-IPO). A very small number of people may be lucky and make it big right away, but I think being patient and doing it "the right way" increases the chances of succe$$ for the majority of bloggers.

Obviously with blogging the range of profits/losses is nowhere near as wild as with a start-up, thus the term "nano" :)

But as pointed out above in detail, the financial risk with frugal blogging can be minimized, while the potential has no theoretical limit, but it certainly has a reality-check limit!

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus

webomatica — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:14:35 -0000

Yes I agree. As I watched season 2 for a second time, the Pegasus series of shows are among the best - if not the best - of all three seasons. Razor was pretty cool too; I'd like to watch that again.

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus

1001noisycameras — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:53:14 -0000

This along with the next two (R. Ship #1/#2) I think are some of the most critical episodes in the whole series. Not to mention that "Razor" was anchored and spawned by the impact the Pegasus episodes had on the show and the fanbase.