Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

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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 against websites that republish my content without consent it is much easier for me to prove proof of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notifications is lengthy and even when filed correctly some hosting business still require even more evidence of initial work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my picture of myself using my favorite flannel shirt” is a lot much easier and faster than composing an explanation of the originality of my blog site post.

Most of the websites that are taking my work nowadays are doing so via automated ways. Its relatively simple to write 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 a few of the burglars, however most have moved onto utilizing scripts that scrape straight from the website rather of from the RSS feed. Thats a little more difficult to stop so my recourse is to submit DMCA takedown notices with Google to get them to eliminate the offending content from their outcomes pages. In addition, I then submit DMCA takedown notifications with the sites hosting services..
Filing DMCA takedown notifications is time-consuming and even when filed effectively some hosting companies still require much more evidence of original work and ownership. Having the ability to say, “hey, thats my photo of myself using my favorite flannel shirt” is a lot much easier and faster than composing an explanation of the creativity of my blog post. Still, some dubious hosting companies (generally located beyond the United States) will not do a darn thing to honor my demand. In those cases at least theres a simple way for visitors of the offending website to understand that what theyre checking out was drawn from FreeTech4Teachers.com.

I like to share the title or a little summary of your post with my personnel, is that all right?
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 post, give them the link to it..

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

Can I forward your newsletter to my coworkers?
Yes, obviously. Strike the forward button in your inbox and share it as I wrote it (over-use of hyphens and parentheses is one of the hallmarks of my post so do not be lured to modify those out)..

You may 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 factor is that in my on-going battle against sites 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.

Help Understanding Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use.

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

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