The News Review:
- Elinor Mills for News.com
- Unexpected Unions of Shape and Color
- Professional bloggers could get journalist shield
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Elinor Mills for News.com
USA Today – Aug 2, 2007
ne of the no-nos is using content from other sites without getting permission. VanFossen has several ways of checking to see if other sites have scraped her posts. She puts full links in her posts to other articles of hers so that when a story of hers is posted on another website it will link back to her story and she can see the “trackback. ” She has set up Google Alerts with her byline so that she will get notifications any time Google comes across a news site or blog with a reference to her… ” She has set up Google Alerts with her byline so that she will get notifications any time Google comes across a news site or blog with a reference to her. She also does a keyword search for her name on Google search Google blog search and Technorati. In addition she uses a WordPress plug-in that allows her to insert a digital fingerprint a series of unrelated words into her posts that she can search on in case her byline is stripped. Invariably VanFossen comes across her posts on other sites. If she hasn’t had a problem with the site before she will send the site publisher an e-mail asking them to please not use her content without her permission. If she doesn’t get a response or she has had problems with the site in the past she sends a “cease-and-desist” letter that informs the owner that they are violating her copyright and warns them she will take legal action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) unless they remove her content. VanFossen also contacts the company that hosts the website as well as advertisers on that site and search engines providing the necessary evidence via mail or fax as required.
Unexpected Unions of Shape and Color
Roanoke Times – Aug 2, 2007
Be sure to post in this forum when you have a show of your work in the area. I thought I would leave my site adresses here for you to check out when you get a chance.
Professional bloggers could get journalist shield
Ars Technica – Aug 2, 2007
The Free Flow of Information Act protects journalistic sources generally but does include several exceptions regarding terrorism national security imminent death and trade secret leaks. And in response to concerns that the. Rick Boucher (D-VA) narrowed the definition of a "journalist.
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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal – Aug 2, 2007
Seasoned students they knew what they were doing at orientation she said. “Now Friday when the freshmen come? No they will not” Hammond said laughing. Contact Daily Journal education writer Ginny Miller at 678-1582 or ginny.