Why You’re Seeing More of My Face

Many of the sites that are stealing my work nowadays are doing so through automated ways. Its reasonably easy to write 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, however the majority of have moved onto utilizing scripts that scrape straight from the website instead of from the RSS feed. Thats a little more difficult to stop so my option is to file DMCA takedown notices with Google to get them to eliminate the offending content from their outcomes pages. Additionally, I then submit DMCA takedown notices with the websites hosting services..
When submitted properly some hosting business still need even more evidence of original work and ownership, filing DMCA takedown notifications is lengthy and even. Having the ability to say, “hey, thats my picture of myself using my preferred flannel shirt” is a lot easier and faster than writing a description of the creativity of my article. Still, some shady hosting business (usually situated outside of the United States) will not do a darn thing to honor my demand. In those cases a minimum of theres an easy method for visitors of the angering site to realize that what theyre reading was taken from FreeTech4Teachers.com.

I like to share the title or a little summary of your blog 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 desire someone to read the entire post, provide the link to it..

I embedded your YouTube video into my class/ school website, is that okay?.
Yes, thats completely great as long as youre utilizing the embed or link offered by YouTube and not downloading the video then republishing it (read YouTubes TOS for more information)..

Can I forward your newsletter to my coworkers?
Yes, naturally. Hit 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 blog site posts so dont be lured to edit those out)..

Assist Understanding Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use.

You may have seen 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 battle against websites that republish my material without permission it is much easier for me to show proof of ownership and originality when my face is in the cover image. Filing DMCA takedown notifications is lengthy and even when submitted effectively some hosting companies still require even more evidence of original work and ownership. Being able to state, “hey, thats my image of myself wearing my preferred flannel t-shirt” is a lot easier and faster than composing an explanation of the originality of my blog post.

I get a lot of follow-up concerns Whenever I publish something about copyright. These are some of the regularly 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 sites that republish my content without authorization it is much easier for me to prove evidence of ownership and creativity when my face is in the cover image.

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