Permissions – How to get permission to reuse my blog content

In order to legally re-use anything found on this blog, you’ll need to request my formal consent. My email contact link is on the right side of the site between the search boxes. This covers all my writing, my photographs, and my graphics. All this content takes many hours for me to produce and it belongs to me whether there’s a copyright notice on it or not, according to United States Copyright Law.

Exceptions:

1. If I feature your site as Bigfoot Site of the Day you may reprint the review on your site, and use the graphic with your site’s name on it. An active link back to http://www.bigfootsightings.org would be appreciated.

2. If I feature your book you may reprint my reviews on your site if you are the author or publisher. An active link back to http://www.bigfootsightings.org would be appreciated.

3. “Fair Use” as explained in the US Copyright Law.

Permission to re-use my content by porting the RSS feed into another blog or website is expressly forbidden and always will be. What prompted me to add this is a copyright violation by a new site hijacking my content using RSS during August and September, 2009. My entire articles, photos and all, were reprinted without permission and without credit to me as author, or links back to my site, for several weeks before I noticed it. This is considered theft of intellectual property. It is a big issue for me because during those weeks I spent many hours doing research and writing articles for this site. To see my work reproduced in full by someone else without my permission was a very hurtful low blow. Here I was working and putting in a lot of time, when someone else decided to save time on blog development by using my words and images without asking! Without even giving me credit for them or linking to my site, the source of the articles. This issue has now been resolved as the articles have been removed from that site.

About the blogger...

I'm Linda Jo Martin, a Bigfoot believer living in Northern California about fifty miles from the Bluff Creek film site. There have been five reports of Bigfoot sightings within a mile of my home near Happy Camp, CA. I'm also a member of Friends of Sasquatch, a local group for study of inter-species communication via subtle energies, and for the protection of Sasquatch.