Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Google Blog Martin Brookes

Blogger makes it very easy to link photographs on blog posts, without the need to download an image.
I have done this when I like photo sets on other local sites.

One local photographer and ex councillor Jim Harrison did not appreciate the link, he considered it a breach
of his copyright.

I received the following notice from Google.

I guess many more bloggers who include other peoples images in posts may receive similar notices.

Not wanting to be in trouble with Google I removed the photo and replaced it with a text link to oakhampeople.


Update:

I spoke with Jim today, He said he was not responsible for the complaint and the removal of the photograph.

He suggest it was a person shown in the photograph.

I don't suspect it was MP Alan Duncan.

But it does go to show at least one of those Tory ladies smiles is fake and they are also a liar.

I say liar because they would have had to make a legal declaration to say the own the rights to Jim's photograph, before Google would consider taking action.

Jim also said he is very happy for me to re-link the image. In this case I feel its best not to and will be linking one of his youtube videos I enjoyed later today.

Of course if I were to post the same link to facebook they would automatically post a image. So I wonder why its ok for facebook but not google blogspot

support@blogger.com	6:05 PM (23 hours ago)
to me, blogger-dmca-n.

Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog is alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others. As a result, we have reset the post(s) to \"draft\" status. (If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.) This means that your post - and any images, links or other content - has not vanished. You may edit the post to remove the offending content and republish, at which point the post in question will be visible to your readers again.

A bit of background: the DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement. If you believe that you have the rights to post the content at issue here, you can file a counter-claim. In order to file a counter-claim, please see http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=lr_counternotice&product=blogger.

The notice that we received, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org. We do this in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). You can search for the DMCA notice associated with the removal of your content by going to the Chilling Effects search page at http://www.chillingeffects.org/search.cgi, and entering in the URL of the blog post that was removed.

If it is brought to our attention that you have republished the post without removing the content/link in question, then we will delete your post and count it as a violation on your account. Repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in further remedial being action taken against your Blogger account, including deleting your blog and/or terminating your account. DMCA notices concerning content on your blog may also result in action taken against any associated AdSense accounts. If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain your own legal counsel.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

Affected URLs:

[http://martinbrookes.blogspot.com/2012/01/melton-and-rutland-conservative-ladies.html]