Five Good Resources for Teaching and Learning About Copyright
In no particular order, here are some of my go-to resources for helping students and teachers understand the importance and the key concepts of copyright as it relates to school projects. Stanford University LibrariesStanford University Libraries offers the most comprehensive collection of resources about copyright and fair use that I know of. You could spend […]
Here’s How Hard It Is To Get Sites to Stop Stealing My Work and for Namecheap to Stop Hosting It
Today, I will probably get nothing done because I have to spend hours getting the website DoMyPaper.club to stop stealing my work. I’ve sent multiple DMCA notices to Namecheap which hosts the site. Namecheap only responds when I call them out on Twitter. Google’s DMCA takedown process is flawed as it recently said that they […]
The Nationwide Legal DMCA Scam Returns – There’s a Lesson Here
On a few occasions last year I wrote about a scam in which someone who pretends to be an attorney from a law firm called Nationwide Legal or Arthur Davidson Legal sends an email stating that a website owner has committed a copyright violation. The recourse that they seek is a link to another website […]
Lesson Plan – How to Spot Fake Screenshots
In his recently published Next Vista for Learning newsletter Rushton Hurley mentioned a cool lesson plan from PBS Learning Media. That lesson plan is titled How to Spot Fake Screenshots on Social Media. It’s an important skill for all middle school and high school students who use social media to have and this lesson plan provides […]
Best of 2022 – Exposing DMCA Email Scams
As I do at this time every year, I’m taking the week off to ski and play with my kids, shovel snow, and generally not think about work. I have some of the most popular posts of the year scheduled to republish this week. New posts will resume in the new year. About a month […]
The DMCA Scam Returns in the Form of Nationwide Legal Services
As you may recall, last spring I unravelled a scam in which someone pretending to be an attorney sent out phony DMCA takedown notices. That scam was centered around a website that pretended to be the law firm of Arthur Davidson Legal. Eventually, that website was suspended by its web hosting company. Well it appears […]
What I Do When a Website Steals My Work
I’ve been writing this blog for fifteen years this year. For most of those years I have been battling with people about copyright. Some people think that because it says “Free Technology for Teachers” that they can take anything they want and republish it wherever they want. Other people have a misunderstanding of what fair […]
Conclusion to the Arthur Davidson Email Scam – Lessons in Context Clues and Motorcycles
Back in March I got an email from someone claiming to be a Boston-based intellectual property attorney working for the law firm of Arthur Davidson. The email was poorly formatted and had some other errors that made me think the email might not be from a legitimate attorney’s office. The email also happened to arrive on […]
An Update to Unraveling an Email Scam
About a month ago I published a video and blog post in which I explained the process that I used to unravel an email scam in which someone claimed to be an intellectual property attorney pursuing a case against me. That blog post turned out to be one the most popular things that I’ve published […]
Watch Me Unravel an Email Scam
As you know, I am a huge advocate for teaching students and teachers to respect copyright. To that end I always advocate for using your own media or media that is in the public domain whenever possible. So when an email with the subject line “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice” landed in my inbox this morning, […]
Why You’re Seeing More of My Face
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. There is a reason for that and it’s not that I’ve discovered a new vanity in my mid-40’s. The reason is that in my on-going battle […]
If You Care About Copyright, Stop Using Blog Lovin’
As long time followers of my blog and Twitter account know, copyright is a topic that I am passionate about. That’s largely due to the quantity of websites that steal my work on a daily basis. Some of them, like the popular Bloglovin’ service, claim that they’re not doing anything wrong and are actually helping […]
How to File a Copyright Claim With Google
In my previous post I detailed the copyright debacle that has consumed way too much of my mental energy and way too much of time over the last week. As I mentioned in that post, I am trying to make something good out of it by creating and sharing resources about what to do if […]
How to File a Copyright Infringement Complaint With Facebook
I frequently deal with websites that are plagiarizing my work. Usually, I deal with sites that are plaigiarizing my work by simply sending them a notice that they’ve been caught and that they should stop. Seven times out of ten it ends there. If it doesn’t end there I’ll send a formal DMCA takedown notice. […]
What To Do When Your Pictures, Text, and Videos are Stolen Online
For years I’ve written and ranted about websites committing blatant copyright violations. Some of you have been supportive of my rants, thank you. This morning I am madder than ever about a website stealing blog posts. That’s because this morning I found a website that was not only stealing my writing, it was stealing my […]