>You can only give rights away if, in fact, some law gave you those rights in the first place. In the case of syndication feeds, HTML pages, etc. >there is generally an assumption that facilitative copying, facilitative transformations, etc. are permitted and that permitting this limited form of >copying and transformation does not extend as far as permitting derivative works, etc.
I agree but the law MIGHT look differently at "transforming and redistributing" as opposed to a browser(client) rendering an HTML page, which is a common transformation. Could I take HTML pages and optiimize them for mobile and distribute them to my iphone app customers? Is that still facilitative? Or maybe I don't transform them at all but MY rendering engine interprets quite differently. Can I strip a bold tag from the entry because my users asked for plain text? Only law can tell. That's why I don't think it belongs in the spec.
