How is everyone tackling the issue of blogs taking feeds from other peoples and forums?

What I mean is that a blog is setup and uses an RSS feed to take the post from the forum and auto add it to the blog to make it look like the blogs post, there are links in each blog post directing you to the site it came from.

I am getting more and more complaints from forum owners stating customers of mine are doind this.

Some hosts do nothing, some treat it as a violation of terms. My own view is pretty much on the fence at the minute.

They're publicly offering RSS/XML feeds for users.. and users are using it. They have to take it up with the site owner for they're not doing anything illegal.

Be on your customers side unless they're undoubtedly doing something wrong.

They're publicly offering RSS/XML feeds for users.. and users are using it. They have to take it up with the site owner for they're not doing anything illegal.

Be on your customers side unless they're undoubtedly doing something wrong.

Actually most RSS feeds have terms of use. About 99% of them you cant even use on commercial sites (sites with banner ads count as commercial).

If the copyright holder feels that there is a breach of these terms, then they need to send a DMCA notice to the customer and if no results, the vendor (your hosting company).

Im not a lawyer of course, but thats my interpretation of the situation.

Actually most RSS feeds have terms of use. About 99% of them you cant even use on commercial sites (sites with banner ads count as commercial).

If the copyright holder feels that there is a breach of these terms, then they need to send a DMCA notice to the customer and if no results, the vendor (your hosting company).

Im not a lawyer of course, but thats my interpretation of the situation.

Technically speaking you're correct, and that's why I said they need to contact the site owner and not us. That being said most RSS feed's that I've come across don't have a TOS - and to be honest I think enforcing it legally would be near impossible. I imagine the only places where this is an issue is if a newspaper offered an RSS feed or something similar..

If the site owner believes that it is a breach of terms, they should DMCA the site owner, and if no luck, you (the host).

When I ran a host, I encountered this problem, and found that was the best way to solve disputes like that.