Removal Notice

due to a copyright complaint

[glengara]

Came across this on a results page, never seen one before.

*In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.*

[cornwall]

Weighty stuff the DMCA. In trying get info on it:-

"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. ... Digital Millennium Copyright Act This Adobe
Acrobat version of the legislation is 59 pages and might take time to load. ... "

[vitaplease]

Interesting, are you saying you see this in the Google search results page?

Never seen that before, how long has this been around?

[fathom]

glengara any chance you can sticky me the query referral?

Very interesting! ;)

[glengara]

For anyone interested, and to save me some typing ( ;-), if you add *guide* to a certain word in the domain in my profile, you should see it.

[vitaplease]

Maybe I have not paid attention, but this will be the best thing to scare away copycats. Just send them a copy of such a DMCA-Google notice if they are infringing on your content.

(foward note to my content makers, be even more prudent)

[glengara]

Wonder how long they'll keep the notice up?
Was that a ruling or a notification of an action taken?

[lazerzubb]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[glengara]

I suspect we'll be seeing that message a lot in 2003!

[cornwall]

Interesting one that. Up to now one has had to take up copyright theft with the ISP of the offending site. Who may, or may not have done anything about it.

Its worth while a moderator puting this info into library somewhere, as I think it will be useful to refer people to what to do in the light of copyright theft

[glengara]

Just noticed that......person has ripped a load from me too!

[Fiver]

Google has been doing this for some time now. I recall last summer (summer 2002) or perhaps a bit earlier there were Scientology issues. The scios were trying to get xenudotnet out of the serps as it had just started to rank well for the word scientology.

They were successful, because xenudotnet was displaying their copywritten info. But google, in it's attempts to not be evil, decided they would post the legal complaint that the scientologists made on the serps page... so people could make up their own minds about Scientolgy's intentions.

don't know if this was the first instance, but that's the way my brain remembers it, and it's all I've got to go on.

xenu is back in now, so no copyright notice, but it seemed at the time that the comment would be a fairly permanent addition to the serp for 'scientology' if xenudotnet hadn't taken down the offending content. I'm curious about how long it would remain myself.