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

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If you have a site or blog site that is likewise often scraped, here are some resources that may be helpful to you..

I like to share the title or a little summary of your post with my staff, is that okay?
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 post, provide them the link to it..

You may have discovered 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 battle against sites that republish my content without consent it is much easier for me to show evidence of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notifications is lengthy and even when submitted effectively some hosting business still require even more evidence of original work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my image of myself using my preferred flannel t-shirt” is a lot easier and faster than composing a description of the originality of my blog post.

I embedded your YouTube video into my class/ school site, is that all right?.
Yes, thats completely 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)..

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

The majority of the websites that are taking my work nowadays are doing so through automated methods. Its reasonably simple to write a script that scrapes all of the content from an RSS feed and imports it into a various site. Truncating or stopping my RSS feed stops some of the burglars, but most have actually moved onto utilizing scripts that scrape straight from the website rather of from the RSS feed. Thats a little harder to stop so my recourse is to file DMCA takedown notifications with Google to get them to remove the offending content from their results pages. Furthermore, I then submit DMCA takedown notifications with the sites hosting services..
When submitted correctly some hosting business still need even more evidence of original work and ownership, filing DMCA takedown notifications is lengthy and even. Being able to state, “hey, thats my image of myself using my favorite flannel shirt” is a lot easier and faster than composing a description of the originality of my article. Still, some shady hosting business (normally situated beyond the United States) will not do a darn thing to honor my request. In those cases at least theres a simple method for visitors of the angering site to realize that what theyre reading was drawn from FreeTech4Teachers.com.

You may have discovered that my face is appearing in more of the cover images for my post and in more of the cover images for my videos. There is a factor for that and its not that Ive discovered a new vanity in my mid-40s. The reason is that in my on-going battle versus websites that republish my content without authorization it is much simpler for me to show proof of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image. If youre interested in the description of that, continue reading..