Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

Its fairly easy to compose a script that scrapes all of the content from an RSS feed and imports it into a various site. Thats a little more difficult to stop so my option is to submit DMCA takedown notifications with Google to get them to eliminate the angering content from their results pages.
Filing DMCA takedown notices is time-consuming and even when filed correctly some hosting business still need even more evidence of initial work and ownership. Being able to say, “hey, thats my picture of myself wearing my favorite flannel shirt” is a lot much easier and faster than composing an explanation of the originality of my blog post.

I like to share the title or a little summary of your blog site post with my personnel, is that alright?
Yes, as long as youre not republishing the entire thing and or passing it off as your own. If you desire somebody to read the entire blog site post, provide the link to it..

You might have noticed that my face is appearing in more of the cover images for my blog posts and in more of the cover images for my videos. The reason is that in my on-going battle versus websites that republish my material without consent it is much easier for me to prove evidence of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image.

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You might have seen that my face is appearing in more of the cover images for my blog site posts and in more of the cover images for my videos. The factor is that in my on-going fight versus websites that republish my content without permission it is much simpler for me to show evidence of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notifications is lengthy and even when filed correctly some hosting companies still need even more proof of original work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my picture of myself using my preferred flannel shirt” is a lot much easier and faster than writing an explanation of the originality of my blog site post.

I embedded your YouTube video into my class/ school site, is that okay?.
Yes, thats completely fine as long as youre using the embed or link offered by YouTube and not downloading the video then republishing it (check out YouTubes TOS for more details)..

Assist Understanding Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use.

Can I forward your newsletter to my coworkers?
Yes, of course. Hit the forward button in your inbox and share it as I wrote it (over-use of hyphens and parentheses is one of the trademarks of my article so do not be lured to modify those out)..

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