Finally I can announce and confirm that I will be speaking at WordCamp Dallas this year, in just over two weeks! I would love to see some of you there.

It has been over a year and a half since I updated the “Finding the Host” video, today, in partnership with Tubetorial.com, I’m providing a much-needed refresh of the video.

Recently, I recorded a netcast for the preservation and heritage community. In it, I covered topics related to both copyright and privacy matters including an overview of how I got involved in these issues and what others can do to share their work safely.

In a 20-minute screencast, Duncan Riley adeptly explains the issues with RSS scraping, why it is not acceptable and why many so-called services are treading on very thin legal/moral ice.

Though on the surface just another content-embedding site, Voxant Newsroom provides an easy way for bloggers and other Publishers to legally embed professional news content to their sites.

For those who were not able to attend WordCamp Dallas but would like to see my session from the event, my video is up and available for anyone interested in the topic of content theft to view.

If you’ve ever wondered what is in those terms of service most people click straight past, this is your chance. I take a look at the TOS on seven different video sharing sites and break down what rights they claim in your work, who has those rights and how to exit the agreement.

To offer a quick update on yesterday’s post regarding The Richter Scales’ “Here Comes Another Bubble” video, the video has been reuploaded to YouTube and is now available for viewing again.
The new version of the video, which The Richter Scales refer to as version 1.1, not only adds a full credit roll, but a link [...]

Typically, I don’t comment on ongoing controversies, especially ones that I’ve already talked about on the Copyright 2.0 Show.
However, the Lane Hartwell controversy does not seem prepared to end. With the flames already fanned by some of the most popular bloggers, the debate rages on as Hartwell released her much-anticipated statement yesterday and the division [...]

In continuing the work that I began last week on the Stopping Internet Plagiarism section of the site, I’ve updated two more chapters of the work, Contacting the Plagiarist and Contacting the Host.
In both cases the updates were relatively minor in nature but both chapters required some work to bring them back up to code. [...]