Comments on: Google Accepts Online DMCAs for Blogger

By: Google Accepts Form DMCA Notices for All Services

Google Accepts Form DMCA Notices for All Services — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:09:11 +0000

[...] year, I talked about how Google had started accepting accepting form DMCA notices for its Blogger service, making it the first service at Google to accept notices directly [...]

By: Hostgator Revamps DMCA Process, Adds Form | PlagiarismToday

Hostgator Revamps DMCA Process, Adds Form | PlagiarismToday — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:43:07 +0000

[...] or snail mail, a controversial practice that more and more hosting companies are getting away from, most notably Google Blogspot, not only because such methods create slowdowns and hurdles for those filing DMCA notices, but also [...]

By: sgrmedia

sgrmedia — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:16:45 +0000

thanks

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:45:53 +0000

That's interesting. I never had an issue filing a DMCA via the form, if you could forward me the replies you got back, I'd be interested in taking a closer look.Regarding the image hosting, I think I know what the problem may be. Blogger doesn't actually host the images (not many at least). The images are actually on their Picasa service. You may want to contact their DMCA team and see if they can be of more help:http://www.google.com/picasa_web_dmca.htmlStupid? You bet. This is a big part of why Google needs a centralized DMCA process to handle all LOBs. They don't do that and, as a result, it can be difficult to tell which product you should contact. Think about it, you could reach out to Picasa, Blogspot and Google Search all for the same case. Big headache.Regarding Disqus, I've forwarded the issue to their team. I'll let you know what they tell me. Thanks for the heads up!

By: cybele

cybele — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:23:17 +0000

For the first time last week I filed just to have reposted images removed from Blogger. First complaint – you have to use their onsite form. That's fine … it's a little weird the way it requires the info formatted but I can deal. However, once you submit it, you get no confirmation. Ideally it should email the whole thing to you WITH the autogenerated case number. Because after that they'll email you the response with just a case number and no context except for the date you filed it. (And I file stuff with google adsense all the time.)The first filing I did was rejected outright because I didn't fill in the form properly. The second one I filed was rejected because "Google has decided not totake action based on our policies concerning content removal." And they gave no additional information. Part of my issue with google & blogger is their photo hosting. A blog might be well within fair use with reposting a photo, but then it gets hotlinked on forums & crazy livejournal webstores. If I just give blogger the URL of the image, they won't do anything about it. If I tell them where it's hotlinked, they say that's not their website. I'm stumped. And irritated. *Oh, and disqus is positively irritating … it won't let me sign in and it won't let me post because I already "exist" … may as well just dump this whole comment.*

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:21:04 +0000

Glad it was resolved. It's that time of year where these things always take longer though…

By: cybele

cybele — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:52:38 +0000

I waited another week and then sent them a note asking what was going on. They've taken care of it now. I think it just got lost in the shuffle.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:29:46 +0000

When I've done it there has usually been only a 3-5 working day delay, I'd say you are outside the norm. That being said, I always get slower DMCA responses in the summer due to people being gone on vacation and I haven't filed via this form in the past two weeks. So that could be part of it…

By: cybele

cybele — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:38:36 +0000

Anyone else able to document the turnaround on this? I've been waiting more than a week and it's a pretty clear cut case since it's a blog with only two posts and one of them is a full reprint of one of my posts including hotlinked photos but stripped copyright info.

By: Chilling Effects Roars Back to Life | PlagiarismToday

Chilling Effects Roars Back to Life | PlagiarismToday — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:44:09 +0000

[...] is worth noting that the improvements in processing began shortly after Google began accepting DMCA notices via a form for Blogger, meaning that it is likely that, as part of processing the notices via the form, it is submitting [...]