There Must Be Some Way Out Of Here

About 2 or 3 times a year, someone cries foul about the New Music Reblog. Today, Gert from Mad Musings of Me called us 'nefarious thieves' and 'unscrupulous culprits'.

Before that, it was Charles Downey from Ionarts, who much more politely protested, "when you take the whole post -- images and text -- you are stealing my work and preventing people from coming to my site."

John Clare from Composing Thoughts also suggested the site was actually unlawful when he asked us to remove his blog from syndication.

All the New Music Reblog does is syndicate feeds from blogs about new music. What you see is what we get via RSS subscriptions.

Some people, like AC Douglas, and the NY Times' Artsbeat publish partial feeds, which give a one or two line teaser and link to the full post. Other folks, like Omniscient Mussel and Alex Ross publish their whole post in their feeds.

The Reblog mechanism receives all that information, and we look at it and republish posts that relate to the relatively loose concept of 'new music'.

If your entire blog is being published on the site, it is because you are sending that content to us in your feed. The solution is simplistic in the extreme. If you don't want your entire posts published, provide a partial feed, and of course, if that's not an option, we're happy to remove your feed from syndication.

Certainly no harm is meant with this simple little reblog site. Jeff created a wonderful clearinghouse for the myriad of voices who are paying attention to this small little sector of the arts. Our goal is not to steal any content from anyone, but rather to make it easier to find.