similar ideas are announced every few months and have been for the past decade+ most recent: http://curatorscode.org/ http://curatorscode.org/ http://www.nyt

similar ideas are announced every few months and have been for the past decade+ most recent: http://curatorscode.org/ http://curatorscode.org/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/business/media/guidelines-proposed-for-content-aggregation-online.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/business/media/guidelines-... there are two real and practical solutions to this problem: 1. what you are witnessing in this very thread. it works. 2. an idea that I am advocating which is that sources are marked up as microdata: http://schema.org/CreativeWork http://schema.org/CreativeWork Google and other search engines then take this into account in rankings, as do social media sites, etc. creates a machine readable hierarchy of attribution this gets discussed endlessly and i've switched off from the conversation, I am more interested in getting google, twitter et al to support the microdata, the publishers and CMS providers will fall into line thereafter