Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

I like to share the title or a little summary of your article with my staff, is that alright?
Yes, as long as youre not republishing the entire thing and or passing it off as your own. If you want somebody to check out the entire article, provide the link to it..

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

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

Assist Understanding Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use.

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

Most of the sites that are stealing my work these days are doing so through automated means. Its reasonably simple to compose a script that scrapes all of the material from an RSS feed and imports it into a different site. Truncating or stopping my RSS feed stops some of the burglars, however most have actually moved onto using scripts that scrape straight from the site instead of from the RSS feed. Thats a little more difficult to stop so my option is to submit DMCA takedown notifications with Google to get them to eliminate the upseting material from their results pages. Additionally, I then file DMCA takedown notices with the sites hosting services..
Filing DMCA takedown notices is time-consuming and even when submitted correctly some hosting business still require even more evidence of initial work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my image of myself wearing my preferred flannel t-shirt” is a lot simpler and faster than writing a description of the creativity of my blog site post.

You might 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 sites that republish my material without permission it is much easier for me to prove evidence of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notices is time-consuming and even when filed effectively some hosting companies still require even more proof of initial work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my picture of myself wearing my preferred flannel t-shirt” is a lot easier and faster than writing a description of the originality of my blog site post.

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

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 reason is that in my on-going battle against sites that republish my content without permission it is much easier for me to prove evidence of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image.

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