How to Submit DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) in Google?

Stealing content from other website is an offense, and nowadays this can be easily detect by search engines and leads to penalty. As we take more care about our website in Google on not to get penalyzed, lets see how to report Google if someone copied our stuffs. When can we report or file a DMCA(Digital Millennium Copyright Act) complaint to Google?

We can file DMCA compaint if someone using our copywrited following stuffs.

  • Content
  • Images
  • Style Sheet

DMCA

To file a notice of infringement, you must provide a written communication (by fax or regular mail — not by email.

Send the written communication to the following address:
Google, Inc.
Attn: Google Legal Support, DMCA Complaints
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

OR fax to:

(650) 963-3255, Attn: Google Legal Support, DMCA Complaints

Sample DMCA Complaint

Notice of copyright infringement

1: The copyrighted work at issue appears at yourwebsitehere.com.

2:

S.No Copywrited URL Infringement URL Copied Stuffs
1 www.domain.com/directory.php www.domain1.com/directory.php companylogo.gif
Content (Starting and Ending content with dots between)
2 www.domain.com/about.php www.domain1.com/about.php companylogo.gif
companystandardlogo.gif
Content (Starting and Ending content with dots between)

3. My contact information:
Company Name
Sent by: Name
Address
Phone
Email

4. Contact information for the infringing party:
Company Name
Contact Name
Address
Phone
Email
IP #

5. I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the allegedly infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

6. I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Signed:
Date:

Recently I sent more than 5 complaints for which they asked me to send again with details on infringment. So its better to send the fax with all the above details. Your signature is important. Its better to use E-Mail ID hosted in your copywrited domain name.

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