When fighting plagiarism and content theft, one of the hardest parts is finding who to contact. Though the U.S. Copyright Office has a list of DMCA agents, the list is incomplete, hard to navigate and, in some cases, out of date.
That has lead me, over the years, to start compiling my own list of DMCA contacts. However, rather than keep the actual contact information, I’ve decided to let the hosts speak for themselves, linking to their DMCA agent pages. That way, if the information changes, the link should stay up to date.
I will work to maintain this list but can not guarrantee its accuracy. If you see a broken link or any outdated information, please contact me.
Note: The List is long so use your find command (Ctrl+F on Windows) to look up the host you need!
Advertising Networks
Adbrite(fax)
Adsense (fax)
Kontera (form*)
Text-Link-Ads (form*)
Valueclick (including Commission Junction) (see item 10) (email)
Yahoo! Publisher Network (email)
*No clear policy found on either site
Blog Networks
AOL People Connection (form)
Blogsome (email) (legal at blogsome dot com?)
DeadJournal (see last item) (email)
GreatestJournal (form)
LiveJournal (email)
MSN Spaces (email)
OpenDiary (form)
Typepad (email)
Vox (see 23) (email)
WordPress.com (email)
Yahoo! 360 (email)
Blog Search Engines
Ask BlogSearch (email)
Google Blogsearch (fax)
Icerocket* (email: rhodes@icerocket.com)
Sphere
Technorati (email)
*No page available, see notes
Document/Presentation Sharing Sites
Scribd (email)
Domain Hosts
1&1 (PDF) (email)
A+Net (abac.com) (PDF) (email)
BCentral (email)
BlueHost (See: Abuse department) (email)
DirectNIC (See: 20.s) (email)
Dotster
Dreamhost (email)
Enom.com (email)
Godaddy (email)
iPowerWeb (email)
MediaTemple (email)
Midphase (email)
Network Solution (See: Copyright Complaints) (email)
Rackspace (See: Copyright Infringement Notice) (email)
Register.com (email)
Surpass Hosting (mail)
Westhost (email)
WildWestDomains (email)
Verio (email)
XO (email)
Yahoo Web Hosting (email)
YellowFiber (email)
Free Web Hosts
50Megs (See: 6) (mail)
Angelfire (email)
Bravenet (form)
FreeSpaces (email*)
FreeWebs (See: Copyright Violations) (email)
Geocities (email)
Tripod (email)
Message Boards*
Boardhost (email)
Boardnation (form)
Bravenet (form)
EXCOBoard (form**)
EZBoard (form)
FreePowerBoards
Hyperboards
Proboards (form)
Yuku (See: bottom) (email)
* With message boards, always contact the board administrators first
** No clear policy
Photo/Art Sharing Sites
Buzznet (See: Claims of Copyright Infringement) (email)
deviantArt (See: Item 5) (email)
DotPhoto
Faces (email)
Flickr (email)
Fotki (form)
Funtigo
ImageShack (form)
MyPhotoAlbum (form)
PhotoBucket (email)
Picturetrail
Shutterfly (See: Copyright Notice) (email)
SmugMug (See: Copyright Complaints) (email)
Snapfish (email)
Webshots (email)
Zoomr (See: Last Item) (email)
Search Engines
Altavista (email)
Ask (email)
DMOZ (email)
Google (fax)
Mahalo (email)
MSN (email*)
Yahoo! (email)
* Some MSN emails have been bouncing.
Social Networking Sites
Bebo (form)
BlackPlanet (email)
Facebook (email)
Friendster (See: Item Eight) (email)
GaiaOnline (email)
Hi5 (See: 9) (email)
Hoverspot (form)
iMeem (See: 1-d) (email)
Myspace (email)
Neopets (email)
Orkut (PDF) (email)
Xanga (email)
Social News Sites
Digg (See: 5) (email)
Fark
Netscape (form)
Reddit (See: 4) (email)
Slashdot (See: 13) (email)
User-Generated Content
Squidoo (email: seth at squidoo dot com)
Video Sharing Sites
AOL Video (form)
Atom Films (email)
Break (See: Item 17) (email)
ClipShack (See: 6) (email)
DailyMotion (email)
Eyespot (See: Bottom) (email)
Google Video (fax)
Grouper (See: 3) (email)
Guba (email)
iFilm (email)
Jumpcut (See: Copyright Policy)
ManiaTV (See: 10 & 24) (mail)
Mediamax (email)
Metacafe (email)
MotionBox (See: Copyright) (email)
Myspace Video (email)
Revver (mail)
Veoh (email)
Yahoo Video (email)
YouTube (email)
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I contacted Yahoo about a photographer stealing my work and using it on his site (he uses Yahoo’s web-hosting services). Yahoo writes back that they have “taken the appropriate action,” but the infringing photos are still up!
Has anyone had good stories or bad on dealing with Yahoo in particular? Are they simply rubber-stamping the notices and “warning” the customer, or are there any teeth to their policy?
I’ve worked with Yahoo! several times, both with the Flickr service and their Geocities service. My question is if you filed a full DMCA notice or just a traditional email?
Typically, with a full DMCA notice, I’ve gotten a very good reply. I can’t testify one way or another without one.
If you need any help with this, please let me know.
It was a proper DMCA notice, filed by email. Of course, there’s no “signature” per se, but IIRC, an email can serve as an electronic signature under the law.
Yahoo wasn’t clear about what “appropriate action” they took– apparently, they just sent a warning to the customer, who then removed the content.
I was under the impression that they were required to take down the infringing materials before hashing it out with their customer, but I must be mistaken.
In any case, the situation has been resolved (and a side issue where the infringer was also stealing Wikipedia content that I wrote).
Richard: The eSIGN act states you don’t need a handwritten signature on any kind of notice or contract, just something that shows an intent to sign. It is how clickwrap licensing works and you can purchase things online without a signature. I just usually include the line “Signed” with my name.
As far as the response, it goes both ways. Some hosts reach in and do it themselves, often by disabling the account, while others nudge their customer first.
The usual route goes something like this, they tell the customer they received the notice, give them 72 hours to comply and, if they don’t, take down the entire domain. I’ve seen it many times.
It is strange though that Yahoo!, with both Flickr and Geocities, will simply take down the infringing material. I guess this is the perk of being a paying customer.
Still, this procedure is most common with domain and other paid hosts. It doesn’t violate the DMCA in any way that I can find as the DMCA only requires the host to act expeditiously to disable access to the works. There isn’t anything that says they can’t ask the customer to disable it first.
ALl in all, I’m glad that the situation was resolved. Let me know if I can help in any way in the future!
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