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PressForward is a free plugin that provides an editorial workflow for content aggregation and curation within the WordPress dashboard. It is designed for bloggers and editorial teams who wish to collect, discuss, and share content from a variety of sources on the open web.
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What Rights on content interpret how we deal with that content? #702

Closed AramZS closed 2 months ago

AramZS commented 8 years ago

What metadata do we generate, how do we interpret it?

lordmatt commented 5 years ago

I know I am an outsider here but might first instinct would be to look to Creative Commons. They seem to have codified the basics of rights quite nicely. Attribution, commercial (or not), share-a-like, public domain, etc.. Working from the CC approach, it should be possible to generate a very concise summary that is easily machine-readable and yet human readable too. If you assume "fair use only" unless some obvious metadata indicates otherwise, it would be hard to go wrong.

boonebgorges commented 2 months ago

There's no way we can reliably decide the intention of the owners of the source content. Those who choose to use CC licenses might have machine-readable indicators of author intent (see eg https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/RDFa), but then again they may not.

In any case, the laws and mores around content reuse vary from place to place. PF isn't able to make those decisions. They have to be built into the editorial workflow for the specific project using PF.