Privacy Issues
I was going to post this a few days ago, but during those days we were more focused on technical issues to get a functional prototype out, than to deal with legal issues.
Anyway, there is a big debate going on around the world about dealing with privacy issues and copyrights of displaying rss feeds of blogs as we are doing. In general since we have attributed the content, it may not become a big issue.
Also, the internet would not have been as it is if the ‘linking’ of one site from another required permission from the original websites. The same debate goes on even in the world of photography and videography. Some argue that what is visible to our eyes, in the ‘public’ can be photographed, and if the content is not used commercially, it usually does not become an issue.
here’s an interesting article i saw today..
http://www.rss-specifications.com/the-copyright-debate.htm
also, a site containing a similar list and feeds from science blogs around the world.
should we ask permission from the bloggers? and add an activate deactivate field to the DB table and activate if they want to? or should we leave it as it is and remove when people request to be removed, which is quite understandable in this society.
Please express your opinion
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Here’s my points.
- The site and the content are attributed.
- We’re not profiting from this.
- If its going to be a legal issue, and if feed owners would like to restrict or limit the usability of feeds, then just don’t publish them. More logical.
- We can have a ‘Legal Notice’ link in the footer, a separate page about all the legal matters regarding to mvblogs and feed aggregation.
- And like Shahee mentioned, an ‘active’ field in the db table to switch off the feed if instructed from the owner.
- For that, provided a special feedback form will greatly increase the visitor interactivity with mvblogs for various matters.