We were talking about the Huffington Post's blogger job and internship openings last night in class, and this morning, I happen to read an article from one of the HuffPost's bloggers who called it quits due to content copyright infringements--which he had to fight on his own with no support/policy from HuffPost--that essentially reduced his blogging stint into an almost full-time copyright infringement sting. So he just gave up and is taking his posts elsewhere.
This journalist's hard work, hours of research, and creative writing were being usurped by spammers who posted the material elsewhere without attribution or backlinks.
This article brought up two very interesting topics for me: online content scraping and the digital millenium copyright act (DMCA). However, some say that scraping can work to your advantage, unbeknownst to the scrapers, if you do a couple of things in each of your posts.
A very real and interesting situation in online journalism/social media efforts.
UPDATE Oct 19: Found this great article on ProBlogger by Seth Waite from Blogussion with very actionable tips for handling scraping.
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