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My content, your content, other people's content
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sometimes we receive reports about AdSense code appearing on websites that may contain content copied from other websites. We understand that many of our publishers are concerned about this issue, so we'd like to give you some information about the procedures and tools you can use to protect your content.
For example, let's suppose you own a movie blog, where you recently posted an article about your favorite actor. After publishing it, you notice that another website has copied and published your article without your permission. The owner of the other website doesn't respond to your requests to remove the content, and it is monetizing their pages with AdSense.
In a situation like this, where you believe that a site containing AdSense code is illegally copying your site's content, you can let us know by following the process described in our
Help Center
. It's our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable intellectual property laws.
The notice should be sent directly from the owner of the copyrighted materials allegedly being infringed (in the example above, that's you), as we are unable to accept third-party copyright complaints. Also keep in mind that we are unable to process copyright complaints received through the
AdSense policy violation report
form. Once we've received a notice of infringement, we will take appropriate action. If you'd like more information about our DMCA process, please visit
http://www.google.com/adsense_dmca.html
.
Additionally, if you find a site that is scraping (misappropriating and republishing) your content, you can report it for a potential violation of the
Google Webmaster Guidelines
. To do this, fill out the form at
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport
(you must be logged into your Google Account to access this form).
Posted by Gergana Marinova - AdSense Publisher Support
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