Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

I like to share the title or a little summary of your article 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 somebody to read the whole post, give them the link to it..

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 reason is that in my on-going fight against websites that republish my content without consent it is much simpler for me to show proof of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image.

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 useful to you..

I get a lot of follow-up concerns Whenever I release something about copyright. These are some of the regularly asked questions..

Can I forward your newsletter to my associates?
Yes, obviously. Hit the forward button in your inbox and share it as I composed it (over-use of parentheses and hyphens is one of the hallmarks of my article so dont be lured to modify those out)..

You may have seen 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 fight against websites that republish my content without approval it is much simpler for me to prove proof of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notifications is lengthy and even when filed appropriately some hosting business still require even more evidence of original work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my photo of myself wearing my preferred flannel t-shirt” is a lot simpler and faster than composing a description of the creativity of my blog site post.

I embedded your YouTube video into my class/ school website, is that all right?.
Yes, thats absolutely fine as long as youre using the embed or link offered by YouTube and not downloading the video then republishing it (read YouTubes TOS for more information)..

Many of the sites that are stealing my work nowadays are doing so through automated ways. Its reasonably simple 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 some of the burglars, but a lot of have moved onto using scripts that scrape straight from the site instead of from the RSS feed. Thats a little more difficult to stop so my option is to submit DMCA takedown notifications with Google to get them to eliminate the upseting content from their outcomes pages. Furthermore, I then file DMCA takedown notices with the websites hosting services..
Filing DMCA takedown notices is lengthy and even when filed effectively some hosting companies still need even more proof of original work and ownership. Being able to say, “hey, thats my photo of myself using my favorite flannel shirt” is a lot simpler and faster than composing a description of the creativity of my blog site post.

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