Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Google Staff Got Confused While Dealing With DMCA Notice

The confusion regarding the recent suspension of some of our posts has resolved now. Simultaneously when we were sending the legal response to such suspension, we received an e-mail from the Blogger team. It intimated us that they have complied with our request to remove contents from the offending platforms.

We were surprised as we did not send any such request. All we requested was removal of “weblinks” of posts that are violating our copyright from SERPs, blog search, etc. Clearly, it is a case of misunderstanding. We replied back to Blogger team and clarified the matter as follows:

“Dear Google

Thanks for your mail.

However, it seems there has been some misunderstanding.

We requested you to remove the copyright violating posts “weblinks” from SERPs, blog search and other places at Google. We also requested you to invoke your manual action against the repeatedly offending website to demote it in your search results.

You have confused it as a “contents copyright violation” complaint. Further, you have also kept the weblinks intact and they are still appearing at your SERPs, blog search, etc.

Further, you have by mistake suspended the “original source” of contents itself instead of removing the weblinks of the copyright offending posts from your SERPS, blog searches, etc.

We said:

“This is the “second time” that posterous.com has picked up our articles despite our express and stern objections. Our previous DMCA compliant with Google in this regard is already pending bearing a number [#980893***].

We also said:

“The copyright violating posts and the original sources respectively are”

It means the first link was the copyright violating post and the later link was the original source that we represent.

You have removed the original source and left the weblinks of the copyright violating posts intact.

It seems you were confused while removing the weblinks of the offending posts.

Kindly restore the original posts and remove the weblinks of the copyright violating posts appearing at Posterous.com from SERPs, blog search, etc.

Kindly feel free to get any clarification in this regard”.

We hope with this our original contents would be restored by Google immediately and those guilty of frequent copyright violation would be punished accordingly.