It seems as if the proliferation of splogs on the internet is heavily dependent on content scraped from other sites’ RSS feeds. When you create an open web, you open the door to all kinds of garbage.
Many splogs are hosted on their own domains, and domains must be owned by someone. If they are stealing content from other sites, their owners can be held responsible. But only if it’s actually illegal to repost the content. How do you license content that is intended to be aggregated, without allowing it to be splogged?
We need a set of licenses that will allow people to subscribe to RSS feeds in web-based readers, but not to republish posts on their splogs. Any legal eagles out there willing to tackle this one? Do any of the CreativeCommons licenses cover RSS in this way?
