The Tallest Redhead In Ho Chi Minh City

My aunt Sue McKinney, who does a bazillion things including running the Red Door Deco furniture business, was profiled recently in the San Francisco Chronicle, Entrepreneurs in Vietnam find inventive ways to make a mark: "It's not the contracts here that protect you in business, it's the relationships that protect you."

Podplay

Congratulations to Evan Schaeffer, whose inaugural Legal Underground Word of the Day was featured on the January 17 Daily Source Code! Great to hear that one cue up.

Pardon My Namespace

Many thanks to Erwin van Hunen at Doppler Radio (and to Steve Holden for bringing it to his attention) for helping straighten out an issue I created when I tried to add the Creative Commons element to my hand-rolled podcast RSS feed. Namely, I hadn't added the proper namespace

xmlns:creativeCommons="http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule"

to the XML file. Fixed now, please let me know if you spot other hiccups.

This goes to what I was saying in my recent podcast: I'd be surprised to see a court penalize an ordinary user on the copyright front for failing to offer pristine or adequately informational feeds.

Creative Commons has a section (addressed to "Developers") on Using Creative Commons Metadata, and notes: "Syndic8 tracks RSS feeds that are available under a Creative Commons license."

Reality (NSF) Check

The Wired GC puts in his $.02 (I kill me) about Marty's post: "A potential client who can't figure that out would probably be a slow pay anyway." Thinks he's right, though: "Mr. Schwimmer seems right on the law, and this issue will certainly get more focus as RSS feed aggregators become more widely used."

2005.01.17 Show Notes

Today's podcast (MP3) has more about my phone (which podcasts, slices, dices, and might just fold the laundry). I also talk about RSS and commercial or other unlicensed uses of a work (see Saturday's post), a cavalcade of OC podcasters, and conclude with a glimpse at legal AI. Related links:

• The Sony Ericsson K700i.


• Link cosmos for Marty Schwimmer's post Saturday about Bloglines.


• Robert Scoble rounds up several related posts: The RSS copyright can of worms is open. Includes a pointer to this classic headline from Shelley Powers:
  Take your hands off the Tech and back away slowly.


• More from Robert Scoble: "Yesterday was a sad day for me. It was the day that DRM in RSS was born."


• John Palfrey on this topic on April 7, 2003, July 11, 2003 and July 14, 2003: "I very often hear technical people rely on fair use as a reason for doing something, and those people are almost always overstating its reach."


• Jason Calacanis also recently discussed commercial versus noncommercial use of syndicated material: RSS Abuse: What's fair use and what's abuse. (or Skweezer gets it wrong).


• The Daily Whirl.


• Marty Schwimmer on March 27, 2003: Aggregators: I would like to clarify our agreement.


• The Creative Commons RSS Module.


• Burning Questions, the official FeedBurner weblog: Creative Commons, Feed Splicing, and Merged Licenses.


• Blogger's help topic on Syndication.


• The Gillmor Gang, with guest Adam Bosworth. (Possibly relevant to the debate about the unique nature of RSS; the point that caught my ear was the redistribution of bandwidth discussion at 48:50 - 51:20.)


• The Orange County Podcast Users Group (via Steve Holden). Lenn Pryor, come on down!


• MIT's Technology Review, February 2005 issue.


• Legal AI: JustSys.

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