In an idea remarkably better than Blogburst, though some are doing well with it, Scoopt will offer you a way to get your content out there, but this time, they’ll pay you for it.
So if your content is valuable, why shouldn’t you be paid for it? Why is it OK for a newspaper to lift [...]

Creative Commons protects much of the blogosphere from copyright theft.  Most bloggers can’t afford a legal department and they utilize the creative commons designation to protect their work while still allowing some distribution (ie distribution with attribution).
Creative Commons designations can be tailored to fit the user in that you can choose the level of [...]