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Really Simple Syndication. It isn't an assumption by webmasters that feeds are there to be displayed on other sites: the delivery medium announces it!
If I write and publish an article on a blog, that article is my intellectual property and certain copyright protections are given me, even if I do not display a copyright notice. However, if I make that whole article available via an RSS feed - particularly since I can choose to make only an excerpt available - and do nothing else, I believe that a court would throw out any copyright case that I might subsequently try to bring against someone.
However, there is nothing to prevent me attaching specific conditions to the use of my feed and providing I display those conditions, then I believe it should be possible to establish legal protection for them, in much the same way that there are various "open-source" licenses which limit what may be done with the code. design or whatever to which they apply.
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