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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

Been Caught Stealing Let’s start with content creation and copyright issues. Having clear language on blogs and websites puts the public on notice about your position vis a vis copyright. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. Thanks for the reminder; just did it.

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An Overview of the Major Google Algorithm Updates of 2014

Hubspot

Pirate: A search filter designed to prevent sites that have a lot of copyright infringement reports (as filed through Google''s DMCA system) from ranking well in Google''s listings. It was first introduced in August 2012. In October, Google made some changes to their Pirate and Penguin Updates. Pirate 2.0:

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The History of the Google Algorithm

ClearVoice

What we now think of as “black hat” techniques, like buying links, no longer added SEO value. 2012 – Pirate The aptly named Pirate update generated negative rankings for Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests. Google couldn’t tell if content actually violated copyrights.

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Dot Your I’s and Cross Your T’s: Don’t Let Copyright Law Be Used Against Your Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

You hit “Publish”, the post is a hit, and everyone’s lining up at Whole Foods Market to buy your healthy treats. A “DMCA takedown notice” from GMO-full Food Co. then filed a DMCA takedown notice with Automattic requesting that the post be taken down on the grounds of copyright infringement. s abuse of the DMCA system.

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How Big Brands – With Help From Google & Yahoo – Finance Online Piracy

readwrite

The results, which named Google and Yahoo among the top offenders, used Google’s own Transparency Report to name the 10 ad networks with most takedown requests under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for copyright infringement on pirated sites. But the general public has been relatively in the dark. .

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