Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

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I like to share the title or a little summary of your post with my staff, is that alright?
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I embedded your YouTube video into my class/ school site, is that alright?.
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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. There is a reason for that and its not that Ive discovered a brand-new vanity in my mid-40s. The factor is that in my on-going fight versus sites that republish my content without approval it is a lot easier for me to prove proof of ownership and creativity when my face remains in the cover image. If youre interested in the description of that, continue reading..

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 fight against sites that republish my material without authorization 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 time-consuming and even when submitted properly 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 t-shirt” is a lot easier and faster than writing a description of the originality of my blog site post.

Its relatively simple to compose a script that scrapes all of the content from an RSS feed and imports it into a various site. Thats a little harder to stop so my recourse is to submit DMCA takedown notifications with Google to get them to remove the upseting content from their outcomes pages.
When submitted effectively some hosting companies still require even more proof of initial work and ownership, filing DMCA takedown notices is lengthy and even. Having the ability to say, “hey, thats my photo of myself using my favorite flannel t-shirt” is a lot simpler and faster than composing a description of the creativity of my post. Still, some dubious hosting companies (normally situated beyond the United States) will not do a darn thing to honor my request. In those cases a minimum of theres an easy way for visitors of the offending site to understand that what theyre checking out was taken from FreeTech4Teachers.com.

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