Thursday, February 26, 2009

Google vs. Copyright Infringers

Taken from http://www.google.com/dmca.html:

“It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement... The form of notice specified below is consistent with the form suggested by the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act 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...”

Interesting. Given the problem of which jurisdcition to prosecute internet-related copyright infringement, Google takes the reigns to regulate copyright infringers under their own guidelines. So even if you might not have a legal remedy, Google does what it can to help you out. Thank you, Google.

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