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Anyone used Curationsoft - what are your results?

by troy23
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I'm looking at getting this piece of software, but just want to know if it has proved useful for others. Have you seen any traffic increase?

Thanks
#curationsoft #results
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    I haven't used it. Please excuse my mentioning that before using it, myself (not that I'm going to, anyway, as it happens), I'd want plenty of relevant and appropriate legal advice, and not from Curationsoft - and not from other marketers, either.

    I don't share the assumption some people may make that "it must be legal to use it otherwise they wouldn't still be selling it". I'm not a lawyer and that's my personal opinion only.
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  • Profile picture of the author troy23
    I did not realise there was anything shady about it.
    I assumed curation was encouraged these days (especially by Google).
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    • Profile picture of the author drc66
      I just started using it. Curatsoft can save you a lot of time and give your reader real value unlike most of the marketing gimmicks that are out there. A lot of large sites use curation like the Drudge report and the Huffington post. Most newspapers use curation. They pay for the stories from AP or Reuters. I believe you have to think like a reporter when you use curation not a marketer. That's what your target group wants information, not squeeze and sales pages that say buy my product so, I can get a commision. That is how you build trust and make money online.

      Also, with the software you are giving credit to the source not just copying and pasting.

      If you still have questions, search for Jack Humphrey. It is his software.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by drc66 View Post

        Most newspapers use curation. They pay for the stories from AP or Reuters.
        That's syndication, not curation.

        Originally Posted by drc66 View Post

        Also, with the software you are giving credit to the source not just copying and pasting.
        You're not "just" copying and pasting: you're copying and pasting and crediting the source ... however, "crediting the source" is no defense to a lawsuit for breach of copyright, if you don't have the copyright owner's permission. And it's no defense to a DMCA site takedown notice served on your hosting company, either.
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        • Profile picture of the author ajwilliams
          I have been interested in concept of curating content and I have even done it. Of course, I was curating my own content from one blog to another. I suppose there certainly could be some potential liability involved in using curated content. But it also looks as though there is a fine line over which one can step. Sounds like a lot of crap, right?

          If everyone used curation for content on their blogs or content management systems, then there would be no original content left. And, it looks like everyone with the exception of me and a couple of others posting here are doing it. It's like many other things, the new thing, the latest way to make money without working.

          Hang on, something else will come down the pike. In the meantime, good advice is to seek legal clarification. If in fact it is deemed to be illegal, then "Katie Bar The Door", this is gonna be big. Just saying!!

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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by ajwilliams View Post

            In the meantime, good advice is to seek legal clarification. If in fact it is deemed to be illegal, then "Katie Bar The Door", this is gonna be big. Just saying!!
            Not all countries even have the same laws about it. I think that quoting bits "for review" and for what they call "fair use" is generally accepted as being ok and not illegal. But the reality is that people are widely stealing entire articles under the guise of "curation", some of them genuinely being naive enough to imagine that "crediting the source with a link" somehow makes that ok!

            And there are even some people selling software who are actually encouraging in them that belief, too. :rolleyes: :p
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            • Profile picture of the author drc66
              Well, I see you wrote an article on cancer on you website. Hmm. Where are your sources you used? Just because you are putting something in your own words does not make it good content or legal. A topic like cancer, in the context you put the article in, should give credit to the research and the source you got the information.

              Are people going to abuse curation? Probably. However, may be you need to research curation before you make blanket judgement.
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              • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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                Originally Posted by drc66 View Post

                Just because you are putting something in your own words does not make it good content or legal.
                I think you've overlooked one little fact there, perhaps? I'm not selling or promoting anything, and clearly not offering anything that anyone, by any stretch of the imagination, could imagine is "advice".

                Originally Posted by drc66 View Post

                Are people going to abuse curation? Probably.
                There's no "probably" about it. It's happening all the time. That's one of the main reasons I (and others here) use up some of my time serving DMCA site takedown notices on hosting companies.

                Originally Posted by drc66 View Post

                However, may be you need to research curation before you make blanket judgement.
                Thanks very much for your concern, but I've actually done plenty of research on it, including taking legal advice from a specialist intellectual-property/internet lawyer. Though I'm no lawyer myself, that's part of the reason for my opinion about curation expressed above.
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  • Profile picture of the author troy23
    After reading all the posts I think I may avoid the software now and perhaps curation altogether.
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    • Profile picture of the author angshuy2k
      Originally Posted by troy23 View Post

      After reading all the posts I think I may avoid the software now and perhaps curation altogether.
      Troy, those were opinions and I respect all the above statement and opinions and actual implications to those opinions might be far greater that what we can see. However, you may or may not try and see what it does and form your own opinion as others have described here. It is just my thought, but enjoyed reading this thread as like the fact when someone is speaking the truth and realizing how bitter it might be, at least it is the truth.

      Love AL post as always.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Ning Lo
    I suggest posting in the Product review section of this forum.

    You should get more answers

    Cheers,

    Gary
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