Slashdot Mirror
Consortium To Share Ad Revenue From Stolen Stories
Hugh Pickens writes "Erick Schonfeld has an interesting story in TechCrunch about a consortium of publishers including Reuters, the Magazine Publishers of America, and Politico that plans to take a new approach towards the proliferation of splogs (spam blogs) and other sites which republish the entire feed of news sites and blogs, often without attribution or links. For any post or page which takes a full copy of a publisher's work, the Fair Syndication Consortium thinks the ad networks should pay a portion of the ad revenues being generated by those sites. Rather than go after these sites one at a time, the Fair Syndication Consortium wants to negotiate directly with the ad networks which serve ads on these sites: DoubleClick, Google's AdSense, and Yahoo. One precedent for this type of approach is YouTube's Content ID program, which splits revenues between YouTube and the media companies whose videos are being reused online. How would the ad networks know that the content in question belongs to the publisher? Attributor would keep track of it all and manage the requests for payment. The consortium is open to any publisher to join, including bloggers. It may not be the perfect solution but 'it is certainly better than sending out thousands of takedown notices' writes Schonfeld."
'doing something' s0rvey which appeared...saying (7700+1400+700)*4 When done playing least I won't irrecoverable FreeBSD is already
Here's a list of the more important things I've done in my life: Coined "Inclusive" and "Inclusive Democracy" concepts from math term. Original creator of "Lights On! Tampa!" art display/contest. Proposed "Floating Riverwalk" for Tampa Proposed "Water Taxi" for Tampa Proposed Lee Roy Selmon Expressway 43 bridge extension to St. Pete w/rail link, civilian air port use for Mac Dill Field. Developed pheromone chewing gum cure for delinquency, criminal behavior, drug addiction and sexual perversion. Proposed GA's HOPE Scholarship Program (precursor to Bright Futures), college for millions. Proposed "Don't ask, Don't tell", Law & Rule Obeying Gays in the Military executive order & 1st thing timing Proposed Tuskeegee Presidential Apologies and generous NIH Victim Restitutions. Presidential advisor to President Bubba "Bill" Clinton, Hillary Clinton 1972 Presidential advisor to Presidents George W. & G. H. W. Bush, 1971 (George H.W. Bush led the plumbers in killing JFK & many others) Wrote poems for Dead Poets Society (& sax solo) lyrics "Light and Day" Spotless Mind Stories, characters, speeches for Braveheart, Independence Day, Armageddon, Deep Impact, Titanic, Good Will Hunting (I wrote the notes/problems in the film), Cast Away, LOR, Wag the Dog, Lost in Translation, V for Vendetta, Juno, Forrest Gump, Night at the Museum, Shawshank Redeption, The Matrix I, II), Austin Powers, Green Mile, Cast Away, Gladiator, Mystic River, 300, Galaxy Quest, Vanilla Sky, A Beautiful Mind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Simpsons Movie, etc.. And TV shows: Morning Edition, Touched by an Angel, Bones, Justice, House, Lost, Numbers, and Fringe (of course). Found three ways to mitigate hurricanes (saved Houston from Ike flooding), potential treatment for autoimmune disease and cancer. Invented the port doubler for laptops, a room temperature superconductor, artificial gills. Every story was stolen. Writers have invaded my home, my campsite, even my hotel room to feel around and rob my creativity. From Star Wars to Kings and 3 trillion dollars in ticket sales in between, nobody knows how to do anything anywhere except steal. This is a nice idea, but until you plow back and dig out what is recorded already, justice will suffer. The worst murderers in history, Bush & his death squad plumbers, escaped the judgement of history. What could be worse for poor Justice?