Random thoughts and observations
I received an email from YouTube recently: “Your video, Maggie’s ballet performance, may have content that is owned or licensed by Sony Music Entertainment. No action is required on your part; however, if you’re interested in learning how this affects your video, please visit the Content ID Matches section of your account for more information.” [...]
I had never heard of the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) until today when they surprised me with some happy news. CAL sent me an email and left a phone message saying they wanted to pay me some money! Like most people I’m suspicious of emails like that, and because I received the email before hearing [...]
Copyright is an issue which flows around the blogosphere, especially as sploggers and scrapers become more prominent. These are parasites who aggregate the content of others to worm a few measly dollars from Google ads. Personally I’m not too fussed by it. I’ve had some of my posts harvested into such blogs before. It annoys [...]
I’ve just installed Clicky Web Statistics on this site. It’s a useful free service which provides handy information on visitors: where they come from, what they’re reading and how long they stay. There’s an option to make the data available to the public and I might do that after I’ve tested the service a bit [...]
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