MSNBC added RSS feeds today, following the long lead of Yahoo! News. Far from innovating, they actually copied much of the text from Yahoo’s RSS page.
Here’s one example from each page, but look at each page yourself to see ALL the similarities:
| Yahoo | MSNBC |
What are the terms of use?
The feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses. We ask that you provide attribution to Yahoo! News in connection with your use of the feeds. If you provide this attribution in text, please use: “Yahoo! News.” If you provide this attribution with a graphic, please use the Yahoo! News logo that we have included in the feed itself. We reserve all rights in and to the Yahoo! News logo, and your right to use the Yahoo! News logo is limited to providing attribution in connection with these RSS feeds. We are also including the provider of each individual news story in the feed alongside each headline. Please do not alter this for display. We want our news partners to be attributed for their work. Yahoo! News also reserves the right to require you to cease distributing these feeds at any time for any reason. |
What are the terms of use?
The MSNBC.com feeds in the RSS format are provided free of charge for use by individuals for personal, non-commercial uses. Attribution to MSNBC.com must be provided in connection with your use of the feeds. If you provide this attribution in text, please use: “MSNBC.com”. If you provide this attribution with a graphic, please use the MSNBC.com logo that we have included in the feed itself. We reserve all rights in and to the MSNBC.com logo, and your right to use the MSNBC.com logo is limited to providing attribution in connection with these RSS feeds. By using the MSNBC.com RSS news feed, you agree to be bound by the MSNBC.com Terms and Conditions. MSNBC.com reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use and the Terms of Service referenced above from time to time and without notice. MSNBC.com reserves the right to cease offering these feeds at any time or require you to cease distributing these feeds at any time for any reason. |
No wonder knowing who is playing the catchup – but this is too much for well established cash rich enteprises to even think of doing leave aside doing.
Turnaround is fair play! Yahoo has been ripping off other web firms for almost a decade.
The only good thing about this – showing so well that MSNBC hasn’t a clue – is that it might accelerate the move to standardized “small print.”
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Too bad contracts, privacy agreements, TOS, TOU, AUP, etc. aren’t copyrightable.
Or did you not know that?
Read the post again. It’s the whole page, not just the TOS.
yahoo/msnbc re-print Reuters and AP articles verbatim, that’s why they look the same
what is search.yahoo.com doing w.r.t google.com?