Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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.
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. If you are not
sure whether material available online infringes your copyright, 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 upon (for example, "The copyrighted
work at issue is the image that appears on http://www.google.com/gn/shared/12345678910111213141516/test")
or other information sufficient to specify the copyrighted work being
infringed (for example, "The copyrighted work at issue is the “Touch
Not This Cat” by Dudley Smith, published by Smith Publishing,
ISBN #0123456789").
2. YOU MUST IDENTIFY (a) the URL of the image, the URL of the post in
the community topic, OR the URL of the profile that is infringing, and
(b) the SPECIFIC content of the profile or community that is the
allegedly infringing material. Please indicate whether the allegedly
infringing material is an image (i.e. photo URL) or content (i.e.
exact text in detail).
If the material in question is an orkut application, please provide
the URL of the offending application, like this:
http://www.orkut.com/AppInfo.aspx?appUrl=http%3A%2F%2Forkut.examplemodule.com%2Fexamplemodule%2Fexamplemodule.xml&objs;=&sn;=
To find the exact URL of the application, please follow these steps:
- Visit http://www.orkut.com/AppDirectory.aspx
- Perform a search for the offending application.
- Click on the application's thumbnail or application name to view
the application info page
- In your notice to us, paste the URL of this application info page.
3. Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit
Google to contact you (email address is preferred).
4. Provide information, if possible, sufficient to
permit Google to notify the owner/administrator of the allegedly infringing
webpage or other content (email address is preferred).
5. Include the following statement: "I
have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described
above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner,
its agent, or the law."
6. 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."
7. Sign the paper.
8. Send the written communication to the following
address:
Google, Inc.
Attn: Google Legal Support, Orkut DMCA Complaints
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
OR fax to:
(650) 887-1653, Attn: Google Legal Support, DMCA Complaints
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 partner for publication and annotation.
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.
The administrator of an affected site or the provider of affected
content 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 may 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 atwww.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 or other unique identifying
information 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, message, or other item of content 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, Orkut DMCA Counter Notification
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
OR fax to:
(650) 887-1653, Attn: Google Legal Support, DMCA Counter Notification