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what is really unfortunate here is that by being obstinate and combative with briansmith and plagiarismtoday, konsi is missing a solid business opportunity here
by sanj 18y ago
what is really unfortunate here is that by being obstinate and combative with briansmith and plagiarismtoday, konsi is missing a solid business opportunity here.
As far as I can tell the mechanism to identify users is based on name and URL which is probably the best you can do. What this does create is a centralized ID for blog commentators.
By registring as a blog commentator with backtype, commentators could have a mechanism to control the distribution of their comments: control over copyright issues like the size of their excerpt or the ability to opt out.
At the same time, backtype ends up as the repository of record for comments and has an alias database of commentators, which I can anticipate being monetizable.
Every opportunity starts out looking like a snake.
- jamesbritt 18y ago" By registring as a blog commentator with backtype, commentators could have a mechanism to control the distribution of their comments: control over copyright issues like the size of their excerpt or the ability to opt out. At the same time, backtype ends up as the repository of record for comments and has an alias database of commentators, which I can anticipate being monetizable." So the burden of opt-out falls on the those writing comments, while backtype gets the monetizable data so provided? No thanks. What could be interesting is if bloggers arranged their software so that every posted comment included a copyright notice declaring that the comment was copyrighted by the commenter and that it may not be reproduced in full, only excerpted (for example). I would hate, though, for people to start thinking that, absent such explicit claim on content , it's fair game for poaching.
- sanj 18y agomicroformats to the rescue! Or perhaps a commentator.txt file on ID urls. My larger point is that this is an opportunity.
- briansmith 18y agoI agree that there is some opportunity there. However, it really depends on the ToS. And, they have to provide people a way of opting out without accepting the ToS because the people own the content they are distributing. In fact, I already tried to sign up for a BackType account to see what controls there are, but I stopped once I read the ToS. Since I first heard of BackType, I've been thinking about a way to solve this problem that isn't based on mass copyright infringement. I think I have a pretty good idea on how to do it. When I have something concrete I will bring it up as a new topic on news.yc.