Tuesday, August 17, 2010

DMCA used to remove search engine results

by Juha Saarinen

Here's something at least I haven't come across before, namely Google removing results due to DMCA complaints. This seems to be a fairly new method to go after alleged intellectual property and copyright infringers.

Click on the links in the quoted text below to get the full details, but it's basically a certain fashion brand that has filed the DMCA complaint, saying the specified sites are "marketing and selling counterfeit" products. Based on that, the brand is asking Google to remove them from its index.