New DMCA Contact Information List - 100+ Sites

By Jonathan Bailey • May 30th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Housekeeping, Legal Issues, News

One of the hardest parts of dealing with plagiarism and content theft is finding out who to contact to report it. Though the DMCA requires hosts to designate an agent to receive such complaints if they want to be eligible for safe harbor, the information is often buried and hard to locate.

To help with that process, I’ve looked up the DMCA information for 100 providers. The list includes hosts, search engines, advertising networks, social news sites and much more. Though the list is not a complete one by any stretch, it does cover most of the major players.

Each item on the list links to that site’s individual DMCA policy. The note beside it indicates what the easiest method of contact is and, if necessary, exactly where to look on the page for the information.

Since the list is long, I encourage people to use their browser’s find feature to locate the host that they need. If you know of any major hosts not on this list or spot any inaccurate information, please let me know.

Also, there are some companies who do not have links at this time, they are services that I am currently working to locate. I will be updating the list as I hear back from these companies. Please bear in mind that some of the items, such as Yahoo!, are repeats as they are in multiple lines of business with different names. This is intentional to prevent confusion.

Please let me know what you think of this list and if you find it useful!

Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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2 Responses »

  1. According to Jens on June 6th, 2007 at 2:57 pm:

    Great initiative! I do wish it were easier actually get a designated agent registered.

    However, the US copyright office keeps an updated list of all official agents here:
    http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/index.html

    Shouldn’t that cover it?

  2. According to JB on June 6th, 2007 at 4:13 pm:
    Jens,

    I agree that it *should* cover it but it doesn’t. As I said in the DMCA list itself, the USCO list is both incomplete and suffers from terrible decay. Even Myspace’s USCO filing is out of date last I checked.

    Many companies don’t register, only a small percentage of the ones I checked were, and often times it is unclear who the host is as they often post their files under different names than what we are used to.

    I really wish the USCO list was better than it is, but it truly is in terrible shape…

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