In a recent post John Newmark of TransylvanianDutchraised a veryinteresting issue involving RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feedsand feed readers such as Roots Feed. Heincluded a number of links to sites questioning the practice ofaggregation feeds and questioning the legality. Please read his postbefore reading the rest of mine, then you will know what I am talkingabout.
The Federal District Courts have original jurisdiction in all copyrightcases. This means that if you want to sue someone for a copyrightviolation, you have to do so in a Federal District Court not a localstate or county court. This usually means that filing a copyright suitis almost always more expensive and time consuming than filing in alocal court. So, I decided to check out the cases that had been filed inFederal Courts about RSS. Guess what? There are only four (4) cases inthe entire court system that even mention RSS feeds.
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