Rules Concerning Posting Content on the Black Talk Radio Network – Blogger Affiliate Program

Out of legal concerns and because of recent posts to Blogs on our network, it is necessary to send out this message to all members of the community. If you do not post to the network then this does not pertain to you. In this message, the following will be addressed:

1) Rules Concerning Posting Copyrighted Material
2) Posts Image Resources
3) Posting Business Related Material or Spamming The Network
4) Revenue Opportunities for Bloggers

1. Daniel Lagani wrote a piece titled “The Web and Big Profits Put Fair Use to the Test” for minonline.com on October 30, 2009. This article concerns our website when members posted content of which they are not the authors.

Excerpt:

Just last spring, the Associated Press charged that Google News and other aggregators were essentially stealing content by building businesses with AP stories and not sharing revenue. Ironically, Google News takes very small snippets of each article compared to sites like Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Silicon Alley Insider and scores more that regularly use far bigger excerpts in their curated pieces. Despite the AP's claims, the prevailing belief for most aggregators and curators is that prominent links back to the original source material are a benefit to the rights holder. Additionally, most sites appear to be "transforming" the original content to stay within the bounds of fair use. Read More

In short, Mr. Lagani is talking about how organizations and companies are going after those who steal there content and post it as their own on their websites and blogs. As the founder and President of the Black Talk Media Project, I want to be sure that anything associated with our organization is ethical and within legal bounds. We do not want to give corporate media a reason to target us because we are very critical of how they report news or lack thereof.

It is generally acceptable to post and excerpt from an article as long as you post a link back to the original article or content. It is also helpful if you write a brief opinion or summary of the article you are posting.

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2. You may want to include a photograph or two in your blogs or articles you partially post. Most people will go to websites like Tiny Pic or some might use the photo from the original article. This is not acceptable practice as the photographs are copyrighted material. A resource you can use for photos is Creative Commons. Creative Commons websites like Flickr have photos you can use with certain requirements. Usually the requirement is to attribute the photograph to the owner.

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3. We are finding that people are joining the website solely for the purpose of spamming or posting business advertisement. Many man-hours were put into building up the traffic to the network and we do not feel it is appropriate for people to take advantage of our traffic without having helped to build the network. In a November 2009 survey, Netcraft estimated that there are over 233,636,281 million websites worldwide. Currently out of worldwide websites, the Black Talk Radio Network is ranked #396,663 in terms of traffic and visitor page views. We are ranked at #178,799 out of the millions of websites based in the United States although we have only been up and running for fifteenth months, virtually no advertisement budget and never been given free coverage on a major news network.

Members are allowed to post anything they like on their personal profile pages and there is a forum section for free business promotion for those who still choose not to support our work and insist on posting business promotions on our network. Spammers will be banned from the network at the discretion of the administrators.

4. We will soon be offering an affiliate program sharing fifty percent of revenue generated from approved advertisement. We are looking for 30 people to blog or post videos about criminal, social, political, educational and family issues. We may also include someone to write music and movie reviews. If you are interested in joining, please email us at blacktalkradiobaby[@]gmail.com.

Regards,
Black Talk Radio Network Management

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