태우's log

2/17/2005

Who owns contents?

Filed under: — twdanny @ 11:37 pm

This is a response to Richard MacManus‘ “Bloglines Was Scared Off Advertising Strategy”.
It incorporates what happend in Korea with Daum RSSNet and the ever-increasing issues of privacy and copyrights in the Web 2.0 world as now machines massively consume contents produced by the authors.

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아래 글은 Richard MacManus“Bloglines Was Scared Off Advertising Strategy”에 대한 답변. 기계들이 대량으로 정보를 소비하게 되는 웹2.0 세상에서 더욱 커지게만 될 개인정보보호와 저작권의 문제를 놓고 한국에서 대략 한달전쯤 일어났던 다음 RSS넷의 예를 들어서 얘기하였다.

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As the Web becomes a web better designed for machine consumption far more than now, the issues of privacy and copyright will only become more important simply because at least for a while, IMO, there’s not gonna be any solid standardized trust infrastructure on the web that will tell the machines which ones they’re “allowed” to consume without violating the author’s (or the content owner’s) privacy and copyrights. (Remember how the anti-spam coalition simply fell apart last year.)

Pershaps due to the success Bloglines has enjoyed, Bloglines hasn’t had to suffer much from copyright controveries, maybe except for the ads problems you mention in this post and the Schwimmer episode. But here’s a story about what happened in Korea. Daum (http://www.daum.net) is the No.1 portal in Korea, with about over 20 ~ 30 million regular visitors on a daily basis (used to No.3 on the Alexa internet traffic research only next to Yahoo and msn). With its size in mind, in order to go with the trend and also to jump into the huge blogging market in Korea (there are over 10 million bloggers in Korea estimated right now), they started a Bloglines-like service. I personally liked it a lot and considered a good move by the company. Then, boom. Tons of bloggers get infuriated and begin a boycott movement against Daum because they felt that Daum was “stealing” their own contents without permission (copyrights) and revealing their personal lives to the whole world (privacy). Daum developers responded pretty quickly (probably in fears) by displaying the author’s name next to every single blog title and putting “see the original” button next to every post title. Of course, this was done to shun the blame Daum would get for making it look like it’s their own content. Things kind of have settled down but there were huge atmosphere changes among Korean bloggers, some taking extremes as to quit blogging for good. As an adorer of Bloglines and as someone who was so excited to see such a service developed in my own country, I first kinda scoffed at the whole movement as lack of technical knowledge by the bloggers, but it didn’t take me long to be a human and to start totally understanding where they were coming from. I probably would want to beat up whoever made the services if I start seeing all the travel agency ads next to my post written on the precious honeymoon trip to Hawaii.

And there’s no guarantee that this wouldn’t happen in other parts of the world. (very well explained in the EPIC video where NYT and Google go head-on-head against each other). While Rip-Burn-Mix is the one of the most fascinating aspects of Web 2.0, we sometimes take it for granted that it must be done at the mercy of content producers.

So I humbly suggest you take some time and maybe share some thoughts on the copyright/privacy issue. (I just call the whole thing part of the “Web of Trust” in the Semantic Web world). Just wanna hear how you think about it b/c I’m sure you’ve been thinking about this for a long time by now. ;)

(I had to put this long long comment up here b/c for some reason I still can’t get my trackback thing to get to work. Yeah, I use Wordpress and I belong to the lowly 2% group ;) )

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