What is the DMCA complaints procedure?
I see you are supposed to send the perp an email. Then what?
You can also send a physical letter to them.
Another option is sending the same DCMA notice to the website administrator, like the host of the blog that copied your content. I have successfully had website hosts take down blogs that stole my content, especially when I had proof I'd emailed the poster first.
by Dale Hyde 12 years ago
I wanted to share an email that I received four days after filing a DMCA complaint against copied material I found upon searching. This is not the first positive result I have had from various DMCA complaints filed with Google. It is not hard, does not take a lot of time and you get...
by SpaceShanty 10 years ago
I am getting tired of searching for stolen content and filling out DMCA complaints, I remember reading one post here that someone outsources it. Does anyone else do this or can they recommend a service/person/company?
by Jessica 12 years ago
I found out this morning that this site had stolen at least 2 of my hubs. The more I looked, the more I noticed that it appears every single post on the site is a stolen hub, completely copied in most cases (including the authors' names and copyright notes, ironically). I see lots of names of...
by Anti-Valentine 12 years ago
DCMA complaint questionI pretty much know how to go about filing a DMCA complaint, but there remains one burning question. When you file a DMCA complaint, I've been told that you need to provide information such as your real name, email address and some even claim you must give your street address....
by arizonataylor 13 years ago
Hi,I have four hubs that have been copied in their entirety. All four were copied on the same day and are posted in BigEzine. I filed four DMCA complaints with Google. They all came back as:"We have received your DMCA complaint dated 4/3/12. While reviewing yourletter, we...
by Kylyssa Shay 9 years ago
A few of my hubs have been copied by a site hosted by GoDaddy. I looked up their page about copyright infringement and something about the DMCA wording and the way that the counter notice was worded made me a little nervous. The GoDaddy reaction to copyright infringements seemed too extreme to me....
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