Table of Contents

1. Editor's Musings
2. Article: Google's Help with Copyright Violations by June Campbell
3. Recommended: *** Become a YouTube Marketing Guru ***
4. Freebies and Other Good Deals
5. Joke of the Week

1. Editor's Musings

Hi everybody,

And welcome to the Year of the Rat!

We have a large Asian community in Vancouver, so Chinese New Years is almost as exciting as the "regular" New Years. I was born in the Year of the Monday. 2008 is supposed to be a good year for us Monkeys, so hooray for that!

2. Article: Google's Help with Copyright Violations

Are people stealing your content on the Net without your permission? If so, our friend Google may have some help around issues of copyright violation.

If you have posted your own original content on the web in any form, you own the copyright on that content automatically. (Unless you have agreed to transfer that copyright to another party. If you have purchased a PLR article and have re-written it to make it yours, you own the copyright on that rewritten article. If you have hired a writer to create content for you, and if you stipulated that the terms are "work for hire" you own the copyright. Without that stipulation, the original writer owns the content and you are licensed to use it according to whatever terms you have agreed upon.

If you have posted your copywrited articles on an articles directory, such as ezinearticles.com, others are permitted to use your articles on their own sites or blogs provided they abide by whatever terms of service the article directory has stipulated. In the case of ezinearticles.com, their Terms of Service are available at this link.

Ezine Articles' Terms of Service stipulate clearly that anyone publishing an article from this diretory must leave the resource box intact and create a live link in the resource box. These links are golden to a writer, not only becaue of the direct traffic through clicks, but because Google Search Engine deems your page more important because of the link.

If your link is not live, the publisher is in violation of Ezine Article's Terms of Service and is in violation of copyright law.

When this is the case, it is the copyright owner's responsiblity to enforce the copyright.

The first move is to contact the publisher and politely request that the link be made live. Include a link to Ezine Articles Terms of Service. In many cases, it is an innocent mistake and the publisher has simply forgotten to add the coding for a direct link.

If, after a few days, you hear nothing from the publisher and the link is still not present, then you may want to step things up a notch.

One option is to take legal action to enforce the copyright violation. The information about this is found at http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#504 However, the expense may not be worth the trouble to go this route.

Another, equally effective method may be to file a complaint with Google, as described on their Digital Millennium Copyright Act Web Page. (DMCA). You will need to provide proof that your copywrited work was used illegally. After Google has processsed your complaint, when a searcher clicks on a link that leads to your stolen content, Google will replace that content with your letter of complaint about copyright violation. Google's DMCA page links to an example of this. It's pretty cool!

One word of caution, however. Be sure you are able to prove copyright. You can be held liable for damages if you make a false accusation. (There is more about this at Google's DMCA page). And, as I said before, please give the other person the benefit of the doubt and contact them before you make a complaint elsewhere.

We all make mistakes. Even you.

3. Product Recommendation: *** Become a YouTube Marketing Guru***

Are you as clueless about YouTube marketing as I was?

I confess that I have not jumped on the video bandwagon when it comes to Internet marketing. I sort of hoped if I ignored the whole video thing, perhaps it would go away. That, and I was fed up with seeing all the boring, unimaginative and (in my opinoon) useless videos that crop up on every site.

On the other hand, I could see some instances where a good video could be a real asset to a page.

I was thinking about how to learn the ins and outs of YouTube videos as a marketing tool when the universe unexpectedly provided an answer. Internet Marketer Arthur Donald sent me a link to his new ebook and asked if I would like to review it.

It's a good little report. It's around 39 pages, I think, and it really takes you through the steps of marketing with videos. If you're in the dark about video marketing, I totally recommend Arthur's book. It's clear, concise, to the point, well written -- and very affordably priced.

As an added bonus, Arthur throws in a free PLR product "A Guide To Internet Freebies", which has unlimited PLR rights.

So yeah. If you want to get your feet wet with video, get Arthur's YouTube ebook. Not only is it a good book, but Arthur's a really nice guy to do business with.

*** Become a YouTube Marketing Guru***

5. Freebies and Good Deals

1. Did you know that subscribers to Bob Osgoodby's Free Ezine "Tip of the Day" get a Free Ad for their Business on his Web Page? Subscribe at: http://adv-marketing.com/business/subscribe2.htm Great Business and Computer Tips - Monday thru Friday Instructions to place your ad are in the Newsletter.

6. Joke: Psychiatry at its Finest

William, a shepherd, was so poor that he could not afford food. He was forced to live on his sheeps' milk, but he hated the taste. He became very thin and sick .

One day, he met another shepherd who lived on sheep’s milk. This shepherd was large and healthy. William asked him how he could drink the sheeps' milk. The shepherd told him about a spell that made the milk sweet. William performed the spell, and sure enough, the milk tasted great. He soon milked the sheep so much that they cried in pain. William couldn’t stand hurting them. So he reversed the spell and resigned himself to the awful taste.

Henceforth, there were no ewes crying over spilt milk.

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