Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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What you NEED to know about the DMCA

The DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, provides you as a website owner with a useful hammer you can use to beat on copyright infringers. As a content producer, you have the right to enforce your copyright. When your content gets "re-purposed"… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 11/15/2006 | Permalink

Comments (4)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines, Content, Legal copyright infringement, delisting, dmca, dmca notice, takedown notice            

What to do about copyright infringement of your website?

They say that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." But not if you're a site owner! I've seen designs copied, content copied, even entire sites copied. It's so easy for someone to "view source" and take whatever they like, without regard to copy… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/20/2006 | Permalink

Comments (4)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Content, Web Design, Legal copyright, copyright infringement, copyscape, design, dmca, wayback machine            

Move over Copyright, here comes Creative Commons

We've all seen websites that say "(c) 2004, All Rights Reserved" at the bottom. Now you'll hopefully start seeing the (cc) symbol, which stands for Creative Commons, and means that only SOME rights are reserved. Creative Commons is a legal concept cha… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/28/2004 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Legal copyright, copyright_law, creative_commons, creative_commons_license, google_guide, larry lessig