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**Digital Millennium Copyright Act**

It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site, [http://lcWeb.loc.gov/copyright/](http://lcWeb.loc.gov/copyright/)) and other applicable intellectual property laws. Responses 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 pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of that Act. It is our policy to document all notices of alleged infringement on which we act. As with all legal notices, a copy of the notice may be sent to one or more third parties who may make it available to the public. 

  * [Infringement notification](#notification)

  * [Counter notification](#counter)

**Infringement Notification for Web Search and all other products**

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. Indeed, in a recent case (please see [http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/](http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/) for more information), a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees. The company agreed to pay over $100,000. Accordingly, 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 text that appears on http://www.legal.com/legal_page.html") 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.** Identify the material that you claim is infringing the copyrighted work listed in item #1 above. 

FOR WEB SEARCH, YOU MUST IDENTIFY EACH SEARCH RESULT THAT DIRECTLY LINKS TO A WEB PAGE THAT ALLEGEDLY CONTAINS INFRINGING MATERIAL. This requires you to provide (a) the search query that you used, and (b) the URL for each allegedly infringing search result.

For example, suppose (hypothetically) that you conducted a search on google.com using the query "google", and found that the third and fourth results directly link to a web page that you believe infringes the copyrighted text you identified in item #1 above. In this case, you would provide the following information:

> Search Query: google
> Infringing Web Pages:  www.infringingwebsite.com  
directory.infringingwebsite.com 

If you are sending a large number of URLs in one removal request, please also send an electronic copy of the notice to removals@google.com.

**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, DMCA Complaints  
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway  
Mountain View, CA 94043

    OR fax to: 

> (650) 963-3255, Attn: Google Legal Support, DMCA Complaints

Please note that a copy of each legal notice we receive is sent to a third-party partner for publication and annotation. As such, your letter (with your personal information removed) will 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](http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=861). A link to your published letter will be displayed in Google's search results in place of the removed content.   
  


**Counter Notification**

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 at[www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf](http://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 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, DMCA Counter Notification  
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway  
Mountain View, CA 94043

OR fax to: 

(650) 963-3255, Attn: Google Legal Support, DMCA Counter Notification

**Account Termination**

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's DMCA agent and provide information sufficient for us to verify that the account holder or subscriber is a repeat infringer.  
  


   

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