But, as long as there’s no issue they have with you, they’ll take your money! Maybe you should read paragraph three. To read more about our copyright policies and the requirements of a complete notice, visit our Copyright Help Centre. I mean let’s say someone copies webmd’s articles and hosts them w/ads somewhere else. Well, er, do remember to read it in the knowledge that Google owns Youtube. However, the part of Google’s complaint that impressed me the most was the following: I’m not a particular fan of Google (as I’m not a fan of any company anywhere), but the above really struck a chord with me. Read our privacy policy to find out how Google uses information, and the ways in which you can protect yourself. With our DMCA takedown notice generator, creating a notice is easy for copyright owners. But for the majority of the country’s businesses, which are small one/two man operations, it will be easy to kill their internet lifeline as they have a business email address with a big ISP. Google Search Blogger/Blogspot Google Maps and related products Google Play: Apps YouTube Google Images A Google Ad Drive and Docs Google Photos and Picasa Web Albums Google Shopping Google Play: Music See more products. Lumen will redact the submitter's personal contact information (i.e. When that gets cut off, they have to start from scratch with all of their advertising, business cards, etc. The number of notices … I am not a neophyte, individual artist, or a clerk in a small … If your claim is found to be valid Google will not remove that content from their search engine results page (SERP), but it can also destroy the entire website’s SEO potential. In addition, 37% were not valid copyright claims at all. Rivendell Makes History By Reporting 500 Millionth Infringing URL T... Will Digital News be the Death of the Printed Newspaper. A 2005 study into the DMCA notice and take down process by Jennifer Urban and Laura Quilter from the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic concluded that "some notices are sent in order to accomplish the paradigmatic goal of 512 – the inexpensive takedown of clearly infringing hosted content or links to infringing web sites". Following DMCA process, a webmaster may issue a counter notification. Things only go down from here, with another notice targeting four more Rotten Tomatoes URLs, one belonging to Hulu, plus one owned by Paramount Network. Its purpose is to facilitate academic and industry research concerning the availability of online content. I think few of us here will disagree with Google’s position in this debate. In fact, they specify exactly how what percentage are invalid: 37%. In any case, this element of the law (section 92A) has been met with a lot of resistance from Google, who heavily criticised the newly proposed law. Visit to find out more and understand how Google helps to protect you, your computer and the Internet from cybercrime. When we take action in response to a copyright notice, we notify the administrator of the affected site through Google’s Search Console. If a takedown notice is valid, copyright law requires that we remove the content from our services—in this case, a URL from Search results. Only four simple steps are required to send a DMCA Takedown Notice. Just to chip in, I also completely agree with the selected passage. Look at it another way.. 37% of business related take downs may be items posted under “fair use” that businesses’ lawyers should know are non-infringing (pictures of products for resale, repair shops, etc). For reasons unknown, this notice targets the History Channel while another attempts to delist a Harley Quinn article published by Newsweek. All told and from a standing start, the company appears to have requested the removal of more than 6,300 URLs from third-party sites, claiming that they infringe AlloCiné’s rights. I.P. As such, Google concludes that “Section 92A puts users’ procedural and fundamental rights at risk, by threatening to terminate users’ internet access based on mere allegations and reverse the burden of proof onto a user to establish there was no infringement.” Google continues to state that “Section 92A undermines the incredible social and economic benefits of the open and universally accessible internet, by providing for a remedy of account termination or disconnection that is disproportionate to the harm of copyright infringement online.”. If webmd files a DMCA complaint, they are now filing it against a competitor. With Google refusing to take action for almost all URLs thus far, another notice persists by demanding the takedown of an information page relating to the TV series Asylum City published on the CanalPlus website. I sure hope for all the people in New Zealand that this ridiculous section 92A doesn’t make it into law. It gives the percentages of malicious take downs and those filed by competitors. We may also publish similar information from your notice to our Transparency Report, which provides data on the requests that we receive from copyright owners and governments to remove information from our products. It is probably time to start scoping these companies, and selling them web services, as they cannot control what their employees or kids do with their net connection. When 57% of the notices “targets competing businesses” – to me that means it is still not a valid complaint, AND it is only to take out the competition. Immediately after this law goes ahead, every internet user needs to accuse the New Zealand Goverment of violating thousands of copyrights; and then we all need to insist that the New Zealand Goverment is disconnected from the internet (in accordance with their own law). Google: Most DMCA Takedown Notices Illegitimate, interesting statement from Google about the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, http://www.greens.org.nz/people/metiriaturei, Chrome browser comes to Ice Cream Sandwich, Google Stops Selling the Nexus One – But Doesn’t, How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web’s Haystack, Nvidia nears deal to buy chip designer Arm for more than $40 billion, sources say, Facebook says it will stop operating in Europe if regulators don’t back down, PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open source alternative to the Raspberry Pi. How is it at all surprising that most DMCA complaints are against competitors? Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs, Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 10/12/20, US Indicts Members of ‘Piracy’ Group Team-Xecuter, Two Arrested, Microsoft Took 10 Days to Remove Leaked XP Code From its Own Site, HorribleSubs Pirate Anime Site Throws in the Towel, “Killed By COVID”, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Website Linked to Pirate Site Offering Mulan. Just a day later, another notice swooped back for another bite at Hulu (it is targeted in several notices) plus an attack on the site AllSeries.co.uk. I’m sure any Kiwis in here (I’m looking at you, Kaiwai) could provide more details on this law and its reception in New Zealand than I can. Security and privacy matter to us and we work hard to get them right. TorrentFreak’s request for comment from AlloCiné remains unanswered. DMCA takedown requests offer legitimate copyright holders an avenue to have webpages that infringe on its copyright removed from a particular web host. I sure wouldn’t host business critical systems in a country with laws that are so dangerous to my business. These notices can contain multiple links, sometimes even hundreds. While that’s probably because youtube et al, would get thousands of those reports a minute it allows major abuse of the system. Quite what AlloCiné is trying to achieve here isn’t clear but the very same notice also targets the New York Times, Netflix, KickStarter, IGN, Express.co.uk, Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, Wikipedia and – for good measure – AlloCiné’s very own domain. You might read something else into it, but I do not see the sensationalism here. What Google product does your request relate to? Since Google receives more DMCA notices than anyone else on Planet Earth, let’s start there. Imagine if 37% of the time shops called police for shoplifting the cops turned their pockets and found the person really didn’t shoplift! This is a list of takedown conditions: when copyright infringing content is removed or "taken down" from a website, by the website owner, upon receipt of a DMCA Takedown Notice from their ISP / Hosting company. Again, the New Zealand law seems to mirror this requirement, only permanently kicking you off so you can’t appeal! But for bigger companies, who have their own servers, there is no threat from having to move ISPs, as their email addresses and websites are independent. Our Safety Centre helps you and your family stay safe online. I wish the idea had more exposure, that an overly restrictive and draconian I.P. Lumen is an independent research project that's managed by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Determining whether that’s actually the case is not easy since the notices submitted to Google don’t include links where original content can be found. Movie and TV show information portal AlloCiné has reportedly sent a wave of DMCA notices to Google to have allegedly-infringing content taken down. Even worse if they can cut you off based on an unproven claim…. About TorrentFreak, Warner Bros. Click here to process a takedown now: Website Takedown Form. Na, it was Metiria Turei ( http://www.greens.org.nz/people/metiriaturei ) – when I was heaping phrase on her; it wasn’t because her explanations were great but because comparatively she at least had some grasp of the issues and willing to investigate and lean about them. Its purpose is to facilitate academic and industry research concerning the availability of online content. What is surprising is that although our government has just changed, to one seemingly less corrupt, that this law will by all accounts still go ahead.