Through a combination of trickery and error, it is often possible for a spam blog to appear to have posted your works before you did. However, what effect does this have on the search engines? The answer is “Not Much”.
It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
This is easily one of the strangest weeks in copyright news since we started the show with stories about Hannah Montana, Bratz Dolls, Michael Jackson and Abba.
We also have more formal copyright news from RedLasso, the RIAA, [...]
In what has to be one of the strangest weeks for copyright news, we’re going to have a tough time telling the hard news from the jokes as a strange cast of characters line up to keep copyright law interesting.
Today’s PT article actually appears as a guest post on Lorelle on WordPress and is designed to help users of WordPress.com protect their content despite some steep limitations.
When a mistaken DMCA notice results in the suspension of a top-ten YouTube submitter, a lot is bound to go wrong and more than a few lessons are going to be learned.
Forums and communities have always been targets for spammers, but a new technique also threatens to draw the ire of content creators and other copyright holders.
Creative Commons recently started adding seals to some of their “more free” licenses indicating that they are compatible with free culture works, including Wikipedia and similar sites.
It’s a solo show this week as I take the reigns over both the yakking and the editing but still cover a full week’s worth of copyright news including some major developments in stories we have been tracking.
Whenever copyright holders are first introduced to the idea of a DMCA takedown, they inevitably have many questions about it. Here are ten of the more common questions answered.
Yesterday, I worked to appease the record industry by buying my first album in years. The results taught me a great deal about the current copyright climate any why there is so much open hostility toward copyright holders.
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