I’m starting a new blog and would like to use your permission policy. I didn’t know whether a comment or an email would be best, so I took my chances with a comment. Thank you for the consideration of my request.

Mason Staney

But good to know the steps to take just in case.

enjoyed browsing your blog posts. In any case I’ll be subscribing to 

your feed and I hope you write again soon!

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My content was used a few times. It was pretty hard to track it down so I let it go. I now have some very concrete steps to follow.

Rob

initiave to take the feeds from your blog for my yoga website?? But cant

find the RSS feeds link here!!

Thanks

Md.Alamin Khan

However, reposting the entire post is theft. It is a violation of the copyright law. It deprives the original writer of traffic and penalizes him or her on Google. (Google penalizes for duplicate content.)

My “Share on Facebook” icon only shares an excerpt.

Like I mentioned, it wasn't until capitalism began to monetize creative works in a free market economy, (which had successfully been created for centuries before without concepts of copyright), that artists made authorship, ownership, and "originality" a priority.

If you're interested in the history of how this all evolved, I'm reading "Borrowing Brilliance" right now by David Murray. His book has really opened my eyes to how innovation actually works. Highly recommend.

You know that I SO want to repost this entire entry on my website now. :)

Instead, I will give you a Twitter shout-out linking to your site.

Thank you again for the time, energy and information you put into your blog.

However, by registering your copyright, you make it easier to prove in court that you are the creator and thus the owner. And, yes, this is so cheap, you should do it. Thanks for sharing the link!

Great post. I hope we never to get to step 8. I'd probably try public humiliation of the guilty before I hired an attorney :-).

Have you considered publishing your permissions policy under a Creative Commons Sharealike license? Seems like it could be a good way to share it with others and you can even ask others to give you credit each time it's used. That's how wordpress does their privacy policy: http://automattic.com/privacy/

Thoughts?

And why not? registering your blog content with the US copyright office is 35 bucks!
http://www.copyright.gov/eco/

Here's a good discussion about the topic online. Although none of the people involved are attorneys.
http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/c…

Like you said, though, most people really don't know much about copyright law or etiquette.

As a writer, your biggest problem is obscurity, not privacy. Great line. How true.

Regarding copyright law, I understand that all my creations are protected the moment I create them. The Achilles heel of this "protection," though, seems to be that I cannot prove it was I who created it. If someone else snags it and then claims he wrote it and it was actually I who stole it from him, that's a problem. The time stamp on a blog post is too easily changed to prove date of creation. And forget about other art forms that don't come with a time stamp in the first place.

Point being, unless and until we officially register our intellectual property, it strikes me as "protected" in theory only.

So if I followed this correctly, I'd need to get permission to use your permissions policy as a template. Is that correct? :)

By the way, I insert the following PHP code in my footer, so that the date is always the current year. (I realize this won’t be relevant to anyone but the WordPress geeks among us. However, I thought it might be helpful to them.)

{p class="fl"}{a href="http://michaelhyatt.com/permissions" title="See my Permissions Policy" target="_blank"}©{?php the_time('Y'); ?} {?php bloginfo(); ?}{/a}{/p}

Replace the curly brackets above with the appropriate angle brackets.

I was speaking with a friend last week. His first impulse was to hire an attorney. I said, “Not so fast cowboy.” I think it’s rare that you have to escalate it to this level.

Thanks.

Do you have an understanding of composite sites, 'clubs', used-to-be-called web-rings or sites where you register to become a contributor? I pulled-out of one such – Wellsphere – because re-posting my posts was part of the agreement to register. I was getting no referrals from them, and why would people go to my blog if they read it on Wellsphere? I realize these sites might constitute some of the 'give-away' but I have opted for guest posts instead.

Thanks again.

I have an attorney on retainer because of Identity theft from a few years ago. When I started my blog, I let him know that I may have to call on him for assistance in this area. Thanks for this post I often wonder how other writers deal with this.