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Re:A Business Insider retrospective by markmccraw on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:10AM (#3028907)
Given the permissiveness of fair use laws and the low probability that random bloggers will engage in costly and lengthy lawsuits, I imagine that CC license or not, Marco's stuff would get scraped.
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Re:A Business Insider retrospective by RockyMcNuts on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:23AM (#3028940)
Bzzzzz. Wrong.

7 words, problem solved.

Copyright (c) 2011 Marco Arment. All Rights Reserved.

If that doesn't do it, a simple lawyer letter and public shaming certainly will. At least for sites with significant reach and assets/reputation worth losing.

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Re:A Business Insider retrospective by markmccraw on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:47AM (#3028994)
If you go through the posts in the google link from marco's post, many of the scraped summaries are <2 paragraphs, (such as http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-02/strategy/3001...) and that would continue to happen regardless of licensure.

The HuffPo which has both significant reach and assets, takes/quotes liberally from other writers and has had mixed responses to public shamings. See http://gawker.com/5820099 . I'm sure other aggregators do similar stuff, Newser comes to mind, although they tend to rewrite and condense, which may be better or worse, depending on the original writer's objectives.

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Re:A Business Insider retrospective by RockyMcNuts on Friday September 23, 2011 @11:19AM (#3030268)
If they write a story that says 'RockyMcNuts says' and a couple of paragraphs of fair use, I'm cool with it.

If they put a whole blog post up on their site with my byline and a linkbait headline, they're getting a lawyer letter, and a lawsuit after about 72 hours.

If you have a license that says "you may reproduce, reblog, and modify my content, but you must provide proper attribution," then that's what people are going to do.

And if you have a license that says they can't, then you can take the steps to stop them. Maybe it's a pain to have to ask people to respect your rights, but with some people that's what you have to do.

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