Full Feeds Enabled Again

I want to thank readers of the My Wealth Builder feed for their patience during the past two weeks. Due to a new blog copying the full feed content of several personal finance blogs, including My Wealth Builder, I had changed to partial feeds. I realize from comments I have received that this change has caused some inconvenience. My apologies.

To protect my copyrighted content, I sent a courteous note to the new blog and requested that they remove the copied content and only post summary feeds, i.e. only about 75 words of the post. The blog owners sent a courteous reply, agreed to my request and removed all full post copies of My Wealth Builder. As a result, My Wealth Builder feeds have been changed back to full feeds.

Based on this experience, for future situations like this one, I will first contact the blog owner before taking other actions (such as converting to partial feeds.)

Again, thank you for your patience in this matter.

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Copyright Protection - Full Feeds Disabled

Recently a new website has been republishing the full content feeds of personal finance blogs without contacting some of the authors for permission. Unfortunately, the content of My Wealth Builder is one of the blogs being republished without such permission. To remedy the situation, I am changing to partial feeds, which will limit the website's ability to republish the entire post. My apologies for this inconvenience to regular readers of the full feeds.

Turning Lemons to Lemonade

While the actions of this website caused concern at first, my creativity training enables me to look for the positive aspects of the situation :-)

Imitation is a form of flattery. I am flattered that My Wealth Builder is considered worthy enough to be republished. In August, 2006, when I started posting, My Wealth Builder had only one reader, me.

My Wealth Builder will get more readers. The new website will serve as an aggregrator of content. Because only partial feeds of My Wealth Builder will be shown on the new website, readers will need to go to My Wealth Builder to get the full content.

New work is created for enterprising lawyers. The copyright space is one that is being redefined constantly with technological advances, (e.g. Napster, Google Books, YouTube etc.) I expect that in the future, this will become an area of evaluation. To note, I am not an attorney and I am not planning to take any legal action.


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