The moment you’re about to license your content under a Creative Commons license on your website… you’re susceptible to fraudulent copyright claims against your content,–including fraudulent takedown requests/notices. This can result you in court with fraudulent copyright cases; this is the untold issue you may encounter when you were allowing anyone to reuse your content.
For the past years… I’ve been licensing my content under a Creative Commons License as I write a blog,–after I established my own brand for my content what I create myself. I always update my content for security purposes. Wether I create something new; I always be on the lookout for possible sneaky trolls who were gaming the system. They’re actually gaming the copyright system. The EFF has condemned many trolls for copyfraud, but there’s no such law that will prevent blind webmasters from being targeted by these corporate thugs who were involved.
Most corporations are NOT immuned to being liable for copyfraud. It doesn’t matter how large is your business, and it doesn’t matter how rich is your business, and it doesn’t matter where you’re at on earth!
Blind webmasters were at risk of copyfraud caused by these greedy trolls. If we don’t stop these trolls… that will be a disaster for all blind webmasters who were owning websites.
Blind content owners who were uploading content to third party free site-hosting services were susceptible to fraud, and other issues. Copyfraud should be treated as other forms of fraud,–such as mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, check fraud, money laundering, tax avasion, phishing, insurance fraud, and other kinds of fraud. But our corrupted copyright system is defective by design, and the copyright reform hasn’t been gone stronger for a long time!
Many shell corporations has been hiding money to prevent themselves from paying taxes. However; many corporations in the USA are susceptible to being struck by the IRS,–resulting to many cases of tax avasion. These shell corporations are the top trolls who were involved in copyfraud.
Blind webmasters on Blogger, Tumblr, wix.com, Bandcamp, typepad.com, Hubpages, and other sites where you can get a free blog/site, or a paid version are mostly susceptible to fraudulent copyright claims that are built to defraud blind individuals, and businesses owned by blind individuals.
Even blind individuals who rely on web-hosting services can be targeted. But many web-hosting companies don’t have mechanisms to stop copyfraud. Most copyright trolls who were responsible for these fraudulent schemes hasn’t been sentenced to pay fines, serve community services, or prison time. Although; copyright is designed to expire overtime, or be forfeited,–due to copyfraud, silencing fair-use, and intentionally claiming copyright on anyone’s work with a fraudulent matter.
What you should do
Always protect yourself from these trolls.
Contact your web-hosting service to implement policies that will keep copyfraudsters out of their servers. It may take some time for them to research, and fully implement policies that will keep trolls out. Or you can create a petition that will be used as a tool to keep trolls off our internet for good!
Write a strong TOS or disclaimer page.
Get help from your legal professional if you suspected you were a victim of copyfraud immediately!
Block ads on YouTube by using an ad-blocking software for your browser. And don’t forget to block ads on SoundCloud. That will prevent trolls from gaining revenue for a long time. Never the less; don’t sign up for YouTube Red!
Disclaimer
I’m NOT a Lawyer! If you want to get legal advice,–regarding protecting yourself from copyfraud; always check with your experienced legal professional who you only trust.