RE: Football | | Fixing Issues Relating To SportTalkSocial Community

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Hi @sahidclement10

One of the reasons why there is little interest in SportsTalkSocial is the price of the token.

Most bloggers here keep powering-down at regular intervals and selling most, if not all, their earnings regularly. This behavior impacts the price of the token negatively as it puts constant sell pressure on the price. Besides it also affects investors in Sports token, like me, as our investments keeps dropping in value. Worst still, it is the same people we vote who keep putting selling pressure on the token and devalue our investments. We, the investors, are poking our own eyes by voting for these people!

The other reason is the widespread image plagiarism/copyright infringements in SportsTalkSocial. I have asked three retired sports journalists/writers to become members in SportsTalkSocial and all of them refused after looking at the poor quality of the platform, in particular, the widespread image plagiarism/copyright infringements.

In fact there are many good sports writers in SportTalkSocial community but they are inactive, for one reason or another. Unfortunately, imho many of these good writers also don't know much about copyright and are constant copywrite infringers. Many are under the impression that simply citing the source of the copyrighted image absolves them of copyright infringement! Even HiveWatchers thinks so and encourages such practice. The truth is citing the source of the image is a cure for plagiarism but not copyright infringement. They would do well to read-up the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement.

I think there is a way forward. That is by addressing the above two issues. If you are interested and wish to know more and want to be part of the solution let me know.

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Thanks for reading my content.
I actually thought no one would bother reading.

I am really sorry for the lose of investment, but i don't still know why people chooses to do the wrong thing.

Regarding the issue of sourcing a copyright image or content, which is very wrong, i still don't know why writers chooses to do that. While writing my content yesterday, i took my time to search for an image that won't implicate my post, and i have been doing this for some time now.

I think there is a way forward. That is by addressing the above two issues. If you are interested and wish to know more and want to be part of the solution let me know.

I really want to be part of the solution, and i also want to learn more.
Sportstalksocial must stand tall.

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Thank you for the quick response and agreeing to be part of the solution.

To address the two issues mentioned I have a formed a club named "50m Sports Power Club." Myself and two others who have joined my curation trail, would vote for sports content on SportsTalkSocial Community posted by members of this Club subject to them agreeing to a few conditions. These conditions address the two issues I mentioned earlier. Assuming you wish to join the 50m Sports Power Club then you will have to agree to the following conditions:

  1. Subscribe to SportsTalkSocial Community, if you haven't already, and post your sports content in the SportsTalkSocial community site.

  2. Post copyright infringement/plagiarism-free content (both text and images).

    a. All image (which must your own or for which you must have a free or commercial license to use) must carry an attribution citation just below the image following this guidelines from Creative Commons License.
    b. If it is an image owned by you, follow the guidelines modifying it accordingly to suit the circumstances. For example, you do not have to cite an external source since you are the source of the image UNLESS you are a professional photographer who has a portfolio website. Or you could simply state your citation as: ©sahidclement10.
    c. You may use copyrighted images provided your article meets the criteria set under Fair Use doctrine. If you do decide to use copyrighted images under the Fair Use doctrine, in your attribution citation replace the phrase, "is licensed under......." with "is used under the Fair Use doctrine" and in addition you should also insert a "Fair Use Notice" at the end of your article. The Fair Use Notice appended at the the end of this comment is the recommended format, which you may use freely.

  3. Your articles should contain at least 350 words (in the language of your choice). If you post in a language other than English then you must provide an English translation. If you are posting a video of 5 minutes or more, then an explanatory note of about 50 words or more would do.

  4. You commit to power-up ALL your earning in SPORTS tokens regularly as you earn them until you have accumulated 50 million SPORTS Power.

  5. After reaching 50 million SPORTS Power you are required to power-up ONLY 50% of your subsequent earnings to continue getting my support. You are therefore free to use the other 50% as you like.

If you accept this offer, please subscribe to the SportsTalkSocial community, if you haven't already, and say, "YES" in response to this comment.

This offer will expire in 7 days or upon reaching 30 subscriber mark, whichever is earlier.

These terms and conditions may be amended or added to in due course to remove ambiguity or to provide for unforeseen matters.

Fair Use Notice

This blog post may contain copyrighted images, video clips or GIFs whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owners or their appointed agents.

If the images, video clips and GIFs used here are indeed copyrighted and not licensed to me then they are used here under the Fair Use exceptions to copyright laws of the respective jurisdictions including Section 107 of the Copyright Act, 1979 of the United States of America.

These laws allow use of copyrighted materials without the threat of infringement as an exception to copyright under certain circumstances. The scope of such allowed circumstances varies slightly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In general, in most cases, fair use would cover use for the purpose of commentary, criticism, reviews, news reporting and parody.

If your copyrighted material is used here and if you disagree to the use of the same on this blog post despite my claim to "fair use", please comment below or contact me at ..........................

If you wish to use any of the copyrighted materials here under Fair Use doctrine for your own purposes that go beyond "fair use" in your jurisdiction you will be well advised to obtain the necessary permission from the copyright owner.

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Yes!!!
I agree.

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Great. Welcome to the 50 million Sport Power Club.

You may, of course, buy and power-up SPORTS tokens from the market to reach the 50m SPORTS Power target faster. You may also buy Sports tokens with the Hive tokens you earn from your articles and power-up to reach your target faster.

Your curation rewards will increase daily as you accumulate more SPORTS Power. With increasing SPORTS Power from your curation rewards and coupled with the author rewards , it would then become increasingly easier for you to reach your target as the months roll by.

You may ask like-minded sports enthusiast cum bloggers to apply to join the club. I would consider all serious applicants.

All the Best.

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I guess i now understand the reason why certain people keeps using copyright photos.

Writing a post which is sport related requires pictures of the sport athlete, which helps to captivate interest from readers.

Most of this pictures are always copyright, and they ain't free for use. I guess that's why i av n't write something few days back.

Is there an alternative to using such image @fit.zone ?.

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Although it is difficult to find sports related free images, you can with some effort find Creative Commons Images from two sources:

  • By doing a google image search by using this search method:

"Google Image Search>>Your Search Term>>Tools>>Usage Rights>>Creative Commons Images."

If you are using this method be sure to check and verify that these images are indeed Creative Commons Images, before proceeding. Google does list commercial images (not free images) by error under that search. Creative Commons also has specific attribution requirement, which you must follow.

Alternatively, design yourself a Sports Themed Banner as some bloggers are already doing for all their posts. If you are not good at designing then you could ask one or more of the bloggers in the Arts related communities for help for a small fee. You could submit a classified ad in the HiveList Classifieds Community and ask for help from these designers, tagging some of them you have already identified. One such person who could possibly help is @vickoly.

You can also search for these designers in https://peakd.com/created/diy.

Finally, as a last choice use copyrighted images if you are sure your use of the images falls within the ambit of Fair Use doctrine. If you use this method make sure you include the Fair Use Notice at the end of your blog post as mentioned in the Rules.

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Looking out for the link for the 50m Sports Talk Power Club. Please, furnish me.

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Sorry for having sent you the whole trail of comments.

Here are the latest Rules of the 50M Sports Power Club:

Rules of the 50m Sport Power Club

  1. Subscribe to SportsTalkSocial Community, if you haven't already, and post your sports content in the SportsTalkSocial community site.

  2. Post content that is plagiarism and copyright infringement free. (both text and images).

    a. All third party images (for which you must have a free or commercial licence) must carry an attribution citation just below the image following this guidelines from Creative Commons License.

    b. For images owned by you, follow the guidelines above modifying it accordingly to suit the circumstances. For example, you do not have to cite an external source since you are the source of the image UNLESS you are a professional photographer who has a portfolio website. Or you could simply state your image citation as: ©yourusername.

    c. You may use copyrighted images for which you don't have a license("Unlicensed Copyrighted Images") provided your article meets the criteria set under Fair Use doctrine. Almost all the images you will find in social media sites, news websites and blogs would fall under this category (Unlicensed Copyrighted Images). If you do decide to use these Unlicensed Copyrighted Images under the Fair Use doctrine, in your attribution citation replace the phrase, "is licensed under......." with "is used under the Fair Use doctrine" and in addition you should also insert a "Fair Use Notice" at the end of your article. The Fair Use Notice appended at the the end of this comment is the recommended format, which you may use freely. Do not use this option unless you know what you are doing.

  3. Your articles should contain at least 350 words (in the language of your choice). If you post in a language other than English then you must provide an English translation. If you are posting a video of 5 minutes or more, then an explanatory note of about 50 words or more would do.

  4. You commit to power-up ALL your earning in SPORTS tokens regularly as you earn them until you have accumulated 50 million SPORTS Power.

  5. After reaching 50 million SPORTS Power you are required to power-up ONLY 50% of your subsequent earnings to continue getting my support. You are therefore free to use the other 50% as you like.

These terms and conditions may be amended or added to in due course to remove ambiguity or to provide for unforeseen situations.

Fair Use Notice

This blog post may contain copyrighted images, video clips or GIFs whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owners or their appointed agents.

If the images, video clips and GIFs used here are indeed copyrighted and not licensed to me then they are used here under the Fair Use exceptions to copyright laws of the respective jurisdictions including Section 107 of the Copyright Act, 1979 of the United States of America.

These laws allow use of copyrighted materials without the threat of infringement as an exception to copyright under certain circumstances. The scope of such allowed circumstances varies slightly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In general, in most cases, fair use would cover use for the purpose of commentary, criticism, reviews, news reporting and parody.

If your copyrighted material is used here and if you disagree to the use of the same on this blog post despite my claim to "fair use", please comment below or contact me at ..........................

If you wish to use any of the copyrighted materials here under Fair Use doctrine for your own purposes that go beyond "fair use" in your jurisdiction you will be well advised to obtain the necessary permission from the copyright owner.

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