Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

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

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 websites that republish my material without authorization it is much easier 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 filed correctly some hosting companies still need even more proof of initial work and ownership. Being able to say, “hey, thats my photo of myself using my preferred flannel shirt” is a lot simpler and faster than writing an explanation of the originality of my blog post.

If Youre in a Similar Situation, resources.
If you have a site or blog site that is also often 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 composed it (over-use of hyphens and parentheses is among the hallmarks of my article so do not be lured to edit those out)..

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

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

You might 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 reason is that in my on-going battle versus websites that republish my content without approval it is much easier for me to show proof of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image.

The majority of the sites that are taking my work nowadays are doing so through automated ways. Its fairly simple to compose 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 some of the burglars, however most 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 file DMCA takedown notices with Google to get them to eliminate the offending material from their outcomes pages. Additionally, I then submit DMCA takedown notices with the websites hosting services..
Filing DMCA takedown notices is time-consuming and even when filed effectively some hosting companies still need even more evidence of original work and ownership. Being able to say, “hey, thats my photo of myself wearing my preferred flannel t-shirt” is a lot simpler and faster than writing a description of the creativity of my blog post. Still, some dubious hosting business (normally located beyond the United States) wont do a darn thing to honor my demand. In those cases a minimum of theres an easy method for visitors of the offending site to recognize that what theyre checking out was drawn from FreeTech4Teachers.com.

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