Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Google AdSense
It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged
copyright infringement. This page describes the information that
should be present in these notices. It is designed to make submitting
notices of alleged infringement to Google as straightforward as possible
while reducing the number of notices that we receive that are fraudulent
or difficult to understand or verify. The form of notice specified
below is consistent with the form suggested by the United States
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the text of which can be found
at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site, http://www.copyright.gov)
but we will respond to notices of this form from other jurisdictions
as well.
Regardless of whether we may be liable for such infringement
under local country law or United States law, our response to these
notices may include removing or disabling access to material claimed
to be the subject of infringing activity and/or terminating subscribers.
If we remove or disable access in response to such a notice, we will
make a good-faith attempt to contact the owner or administrator of
the affected site or content so that they may make a counter notification.
We may also document notices of alleged infringement on which we
act. Please note that in addition to being forwarded to the person who provided the allegedly infringing content, a copy of this legal notice may be sent to a third-party which may publish and/or annotate it.
As such, your letter (with your personal information removed) may be forwarded to Chilling Effects (http://www.chillingeffects.org) for publication. You can see an example of such a publication at http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=861.
Infringement
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To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written
communication (by fax or regular mail -- not by email, except by prior
agreement) that sets forth the items specified below. Please note that
you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees)
if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is infringing
your copyrights. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether certain material
of yours is protected by copyright laws, we suggest that you first
contact an attorney.
To expedite our ability to process your request, please use the following
format (including section numbers):
1. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe
has been infringed.
For example, "The copyrighted work at issue is
the text that appears on http://www.legal.com/legal_page.html"
2. Identify the material that you claim is infringing the copyrighted
work listed in item #1 above. Identify each page that allegedly contains
infringing material by providing its URL.
3. Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit Google to contact
you (email address is preferred).
4. Include the following statement: "I
have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials as
described above is not authorized
by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law."
5. Include the following statement: "I swear,
under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification
is accurate and that
I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner
of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
6. Sign the paper.
7. Send the written communication to the following
address:
Google, Inc.
Attn: Google Legal Support, AdSense DMCA Complaints
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
OR Fax to the written communication
to:
(650) 618-8507, Attn: Google AdSense Support,
DMCA complaints
The content provider of an affected title may make a counter notification
pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act. When we receive a counter notification, we will reinstate the
material in question.
To file a counter notification with us, you must provide a written
communication (by fax or regular mail -- not by email, except by prior
agreement) that sets forth the items specified below. Please note that
you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees)
if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is not infringing
the copyrights of others. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether
certain material infringes the copyrights of others, we suggest that
you first contact an attorney. A sample counter notification may be
found at www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf.
To expedite our ability to process your counter notification, please
use the following format (including section numbers):
1. Identify the specific URLs of material that Google has removed
or to which Google has disabled access.
2. Provide your name, address, telephone number, email address, and
a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District
Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or
Santa Clara County, California if your address is outside of the United
States), and that you will accept service of process from the person
who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of
such person.
3. Include the following statement: "I swear,
under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that each
search result or
message identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake
or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled, or
that the material identified by the complainant has been removed or
disabled at the URL identified and will no longer be shown."
4. Sign the paper.
5. Send the written communication to the following address:
Google, Inc.
Attn: Google Legal Support, AdSense DMCA Complaints
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
OR Fax to the written communication
to:
(650) 618-8507, Attn: Google AdSense Support, DMCA
complaints
For any additional questions regarding Google AdSense or DMCA, please contact us at adsense-support at google dot com or (650) 214 - 4053.
Many Google Services do not have account holders or subscribers. For
Services that do, Google will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate
repeat infringers. If you believe that an account holder or subscriber
is a repeat infringer, please follow the instructions above to contact
Google and provide information sufficient for us to verify that the
account holder or subscriber is a repeat infringer.
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