Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

Can I forward your newsletter to my colleagues?
Yes, of course. Strike 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 blog posts so dont be lured to modify those out)..

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 factor is that in my on-going fight against websites that republish my material without permission it is much easier for me to prove proof of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image.

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

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 whole thing and or passing it off as your own. If you desire someone to check out the entire blog site post, provide the link to it..

Many of the websites that are stealing my work these days are doing so via automated ways. Its reasonably simple to write 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, but many have moved onto using 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 file DMCA takedown notifications with Google to get them to remove the upseting content from their results pages. In addition, I then file DMCA takedown notices with the sites hosting services..
Filing DMCA takedown notices is time-consuming and even when submitted effectively some hosting business still require even more evidence of initial work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my photo of myself using my preferred flannel shirt” is a lot much easier and faster than composing a description of the creativity of my blog site post.

Resources if Youre in a Similar Situation.
If you have a website or blog that is likewise regularly scraped, here are some resources that might be handy to you..

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 battle versus sites that republish my material without authorization it is much easier for me to prove evidence of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notifications is time-consuming and even when filed correctly some hosting business still need even more evidence of original work and ownership. Being able to say, “hey, thats my picture of myself wearing my preferred flannel t-shirt” is a lot easier and faster than composing a description of the creativity of my blog post.

I embedded your YouTube video into my class/ school website, is that okay?.
Yes, thats completely 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)..

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