Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

You may 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 against sites that republish my material without authorization it is much simpler for me to prove proof of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image.

The majority of the sites that are taking my work these days are doing so by means of automated ways. Its reasonably simple to compose a script that scrapes all of the material from an RSS feed and imports it into a various site. Truncating or stopping my RSS feed stops some of the burglars, but a lot of have moved onto using scripts that scrape directly from the site instead of from the RSS feed. Thats a little more difficult to stop so my recourse is to submit DMCA takedown notifications with Google to get them to get rid of the upseting material from their results pages. Furthermore, I then submit DMCA takedown notices with the websites hosting services..
Filing DMCA takedown notices is time-consuming and even when filed properly some hosting business still require even more proof of original work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my photo of myself using my preferred flannel t-shirt” is a lot simpler and faster than writing an explanation of the creativity of my blog site post.

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

Can I forward your newsletter to my coworkers?
Yes, obviously. Hit 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 edit those out)..

I embedded your YouTube video into my class/ school website, is that fine?.
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)..

Assist Understanding Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use.

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

You might have discovered 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 material without authorization it is much simpler for me to show evidence of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notifications is time-consuming and even when submitted correctly some hosting business still need even more evidence of initial work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my picture of myself using my favorite flannel t-shirt” is a lot much easier and faster than composing an explanation of the creativity of my blog site post.

I like to share the title or a little summary of your article 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 want somebody to read the entire blog post, provide them the link to it..

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