You may have observed 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 factor is that in my on-going battle against sites that republish my material 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 notices is lengthy and even when filed appropriately some hosting business still need even more proof of original work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my picture of myself wearing my preferred flannel shirt” is a lot easier and faster than composing a description of the originality of my blog site post.

Assist Understanding Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use.

Can I forward your newsletter to my coworkers?
Yes, naturally. Strike the forward button in your inbox and share it as I composed it (over-use of hyphens and parentheses is among the hallmarks of my post so dont be tempted to edit those out)..

I embedded your YouTube video into my class/ school site, is that alright?.
Yes, thats totally great as long as youre utilizing the embed or link provided by YouTube and not downloading the video then republishing it (read YouTubes TOS for more details)..

Resources if Youre in a Similar Situation.
If you have a site or blog that is also regularly scraped, here are some resources that might be practical to you..

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 factor is that in my on-going fight versus websites that republish my content without authorization it is much simpler for me to prove proof of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image.

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 want someone to check out the entire blog post, provide the link to it..

I get a lot of follow-up questions Whenever I publish something about copyright. These are a few of the regularly asked questions..

Most of the websites that are taking my work these days are doing so by means of automated ways. Its relatively easy to compose a script that scrapes all of the content from an RSS feed and imports it into a various website. Truncating or stopping my RSS feed stops a few of the thieves, but many have actually moved onto utilizing scripts that scrape straight from the site instead of from the RSS feed. Thats a little harder to stop so my recourse is to submit DMCA takedown notifications with Google to get them to get rid of the upseting content from their results pages. In addition, I then submit DMCA takedown notifications with the sites hosting services..
Filing DMCA takedown notifications is lengthy and even when filed properly some hosting business still require even more proof of original work and ownership. Being able to say, “hey, thats my photo of myself using my preferred flannel shirt” is a lot easier and faster than writing a description of the originality of my blog site post.