Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

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

Assist Understanding Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use.

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

Whenever I publish something about copyright, I get a lot of follow-up concerns. These are a few of the often asked concerns..

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

You might 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 reason is that in my on-going battle versus websites that republish my material without permission it is much easier for me to show evidence of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notices 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 wearing my favorite flannel shirt” is a lot easier and faster than composing an explanation of the creativity of my blog post.

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

The majority of the websites that are stealing my work these days are doing so through automated methods. Its reasonably simple to compose a script that scrapes all of the content from an RSS feed and imports it into a different site. Truncating or stopping my RSS feed stops some of the thieves, however a lot of have actually moved onto utilizing scripts that scrape directly from the website rather 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 eliminate the angering content from their outcomes pages. Furthermore, I then submit DMCA takedown notices with the sites hosting services..
Filing DMCA takedown notices is time-consuming and even when submitted appropriately some hosting companies still require even more proof of initial work and ownership. Being able to say, “hey, thats my photo of myself using my preferred flannel shirt” is a lot simpler and faster than composing an explanation of the originality of my blog site post.

You may have noticed 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 prove evidence of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image.

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