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Legal Side of Blogging – Gary Bacon (@GABacon)

Word Camp Miami – (@GABacon)
- www.baconlawfirm.com
- Protect your content
- Wordpress.org will protect your content because they are on your own servers. Since wordpress.com pays for your hosting/server, they own your content.
- There is a big difference between slander and liable. However, there is a fine line between the two.
- Wordpress now has a plug-in to make sure that no one is copying or plagiarizing your content.
  • The plug-in is called: Copy Alert.
  • It will check out blogs across the internet to check if anyone has taken your content.
  • Make sure your blog posts don’t end up on splogs (spam blogs)
  • www.copyscape.com
- You can actually get in trouble for putting comic strips on your blog because it IS copyrighted information. Also be very careful with images that you put on your blog. Check out stuff in Creative Commons on sites like www.flickr.com to get your images there.
- However, do try to use photos on every single post. It’s a great eye-catcher, just be careful with what you put, and where it’s from.
If you take a photo, make sure to attribute it, and/or don’t take it out of context. Don’t use the image in a way, that it wasn’t originally intended to be used.
- If you have images that you put on your blog (that are originally yours), keep a hard copy of those photos in order to prove they are yours. If not, it’s very hard to take legal action against those who take your images.
  • If you are going to have original images on your blog, be sure to say somewhere on the site that they are your images.
  • In a way, if someone steals your stuff like images, it’s a form of flattery. It means your’e getting big, and your image is getting put out there. However, you don’t want them to repurpose it.
  • Even worse, you don’t want them stealing it, and then selling it, as if though it’s your own. Especially if you’re putting out something for free, and they are selling it for profit.
- It is very important to have a domain name, that is not trademarked, or copyrighted.
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Ileana Ortiz (a.k.a. Country Cuban) is the Director of Online Communities at Flamingo Road Church, an intern at 8BIT, and a freshman at the University of West Florida. She is a Jesus lover, people lover, and a world changer. Her family has seriously impacted the way she lives her life. She gets her sense of humor and passion for helping others, from her mom. She gets her business sense and realistic expectations from her dad. She wishes she could match the game of her little sister, because her little sister has had more boyfriends in her 7 year life span, than Ileana has ever met, in her 18 years of living. She loves to think of herself as a comedian, and hopes that people are laughing with her, not at her. She is constantly being mistaken for celebrities such as Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Angelina Jolie. She also happens to enjoy reading, writing, some good country music, all things tech, and when autumn rolls around.... a frothy Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks! I guess you could just say that she is your average 18 year old.. well.. not really.

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