Yeah. I added a ‘terms and conditions” page and a badge I designed reminding folks the content of my blog is copyright protected. I don’t like all that either, I’d like folks to feel welcome on my blog and to borrow things as they want. That harvesting thing was a violation of privacy in my opinion.
Not in the very least! But, it gave me more appreciation to my fellow bloggers. With Fandango’s badge, and a united front… We kicked some serious ass!! I’m really proud of all of us!!! 🤗 🤩
Not too much, no. Though, making it known that all posts are copyrighted and placing watermarks on every pic I post are new additions. Just can’t trust anyone or anything now, it seems. 😏
Not for me personally. The thing is my stuff is pretty rubbish on the whole (only I am allowed to say that though) so I don’t feel too anxious about protecting it. However I respect the talented writers and poets who did want to make sure their work was protected.
I couldn’t understand why someone would take so much content from so many bloggers – it seemed so crazy. But someone mentioned it is possible they were making money out of the number of visitors they had on their site. That’s not good. I don’t make any money out of my blogging – it’s just a hobby to keep my mind busy. I don’t think it is cool that others would be using my ramblings to make money for themselves really.
I don’t know, I don’t have strong feelings about my own work, but I am very very upset that Teresa (The Haunted Wordsmith) had to close down her blog. She is so talented and puts in so much effort into her work.
Not me. I am not attempting to monetize my blog or publish (other than on my blog). But what the whole tygpress situation did have one impact: it made me really proud of the community of bloggers on WordPress who worked diligently to bring down that site that was illegally harvesting our intellectual property.
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Yeah. I added a ‘terms and conditions” page and a badge I designed reminding folks the content of my blog is copyright protected. I don’t like all that either, I’d like folks to feel welcome on my blog and to borrow things as they want. That harvesting thing was a violation of privacy in my opinion.
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I put a long copyright © notice on my main page and now attach a short one to each post, but I still post just the same content and frequency as before.
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Not in the very least! But, it gave me more appreciation to my fellow bloggers. With Fandango’s badge, and a united front… We kicked some serious ass!! I’m really proud of all of us!!! 🤗 🤩
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Not too much, no. Though, making it known that all posts are copyrighted and placing watermarks on every pic I post are new additions. Just can’t trust anyone or anything now, it seems. 😏
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no, not for me. how about you?
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Nop, the only ones of mine stolen are the links I do, if it had been original content, I might be feeling a little different.
However I am going to start putting watermarks on my photos
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Not for me personally. The thing is my stuff is pretty rubbish on the whole (only I am allowed to say that though) so I don’t feel too anxious about protecting it. However I respect the talented writers and poets who did want to make sure their work was protected.
I couldn’t understand why someone would take so much content from so many bloggers – it seemed so crazy. But someone mentioned it is possible they were making money out of the number of visitors they had on their site. That’s not good. I don’t make any money out of my blogging – it’s just a hobby to keep my mind busy. I don’t think it is cool that others would be using my ramblings to make money for themselves really.
I don’t know, I don’t have strong feelings about my own work, but I am very very upset that Teresa (The Haunted Wordsmith) had to close down her blog. She is so talented and puts in so much effort into her work.
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Their website is down now with an apology. Ah, the power of the blogging masses:-)
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Not me. I am not attempting to monetize my blog or publish (other than on my blog). But what the whole tygpress situation did have one impact: it made me really proud of the community of bloggers on WordPress who worked diligently to bring down that site that was illegally harvesting our intellectual property.
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