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Getty Images vs Creative Commons and Privacy: What Bloggers Need to Know

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Getty Images recently announced a new image embed feature that allows bloggers (and others) to access and use their vast library of images for non-commercial purposes. Creative Commons II : NonCommercial in CC’s Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 This is a guest post written by Simon Schmid of iubenda.

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3 Random WordPress Blogging Tips

Waxing UnLyrical

Completely random – but useful, I hope, particularly if you’re a new blogger. You probably already know that you shouldn’t use images you don’t have a right to use; i.e. if you don’t own them, or they don’t have a Creative Commons license. Image: Virginia Postrel via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Getting Started With Vlogging

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So, in addition to your embedded video code, you should also provide a link to the URL so that the viewer with the reader (!) Creative Commons literally just popped up within the last few weeks. In addition to being a mom, wife and entrepreneur, Erica has become a “blogger.” I did not for a very long time. can find you.

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Customize Your Blog's Error Page in 5 Easy Steps

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First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on! Bland Image: jason carlin via Flickr , Creative Commons I mean, chicken-soup-with-no-celery-or-pepper bland. It is supposed to look like this [link] but the picture does not always appear, depending on the bad URL. Double yikes.

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Learning 2.0 - The Things

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Depending upon the Blogger template that you selected, the "permanent link" for each individual post can be found either through the postâ??s Select the "permanent link" url from the address bar at the top of your browser and right click. This work is licensed under Creative Commons- see details. -->. Select Copy.

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10 Tools To Help Protect Your Blog From Content Theft

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This is a guest contribution from Adam Connell, blogger at Bloggingwizard.com. However, unlike Grammarly, you can check an entire URL to see if your content has been plagiarized. If your blog is included among the URLs added to the scraper script, then you’ll at least get a link back. The same goes for Creative Commons.

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Common Creativity: Understanding the Rules and Rights Around “Free” Images on the Web

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Image by Jayel Aheram, licensed under Creative Commons Sites offering free copyright images are gaining in popularity throughout the blogging and web design communities alike, but they are by no means created equal. Enter: the world of Creative Commons licenses. provide the title and host URL of the work.

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