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Is Google Banning AdSense On Sites It Thinks Have Infringing Content?
from the oddities dept
Thomas O'Toole points us to yet another issue with Google customer service, where an author who holds the copyright on his own books published them online but was denied the ability to put AdSense on the site, after Google told him it had found "it contains copyrighted material." Of course, this makes no sense. Nearly every website "contains copyrighted material," because any new creative content placed in a fixed form -- such as a website -- is automatically covered by copyright. What I'm guessing Google meant (even though it got it wrong) was that it thought the site contained infringing or unauthorized copyrighted content -- though, if that's the case, that's what it should have said.
And, once again highlighting Google's communication problem, the rejection came from an email address called "noreply," making it difficult for the author to get clarification. He did eventually get Google to "resolve" the issue, but Google's overall policy on the matter is not explained at all. Does Google have an official policy where its AdSense team tries to determine if content on a website is infringing? If so, do they have an official dispute process? Does the AdSense team take into account fair use? Google has, generally speaking, been very good on issues of copyright and fair use, but this particular policy seems rather strange.
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C'mon
You mean you didn't contact Google's PR department to get their official company position? What kind of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist are you?
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"I know that some of my site's content has been pirated by other sites and now I take steps to punish the pirates. Unfortunately, it is much easier for a pirate to steal intellectual property than to a copyright owner to punish the pirate for stealing. I think it might be the cause of this unfortunate case. I can send you scans of my contracts with publishers to prove my copyright."
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Another great moral outrage story Mike, just too bad it's missing so much information.
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"I am the one and only owner of the copyright of all my books (they are in print for more than 10 years) presented on my site."
and this one:
"I have my books published on paper. I gave to the publishers permission to publish them on paper and to sell them during several years. Besides I gave them non-exclusive right to print my books. So this is NOT their content and never will be."
Hopefully that helps answer your question.
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"You mean you didn't contact Google's PR department to get their official company position? What kind of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist are you?"
No shit, until shown otherwise, I'm going to regard this article as a means to capitalize on an honest mistake. Because we all know what an evil Corporation Google is!
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Exactly! One if by land, two if by RAPORISTS!!!!
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Just an excuse
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Hilarious.
Bureaucracy will kill the joy and utility of anything.
Can anybody imagine a company like google that must receive 100 of thousands of claims everyday. How would they review all of it? Not just that how do you even know who is saying the truth when you get a message from the author and another message from other representatives of some author that have joined multiple associations that are charged with "protecting" the author?
Oh! the irony.
I don't blame Google, not even if they can't attend that many people as I'm sure they will never be able to. I blame copyright law for that.
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Google new policies.
GMail now needs an SMS to be send with a code so you can sign to an account.
Tears fall off when I saw it. I don't own a cellphone :(
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We also don't know if the author's nom de plume is different from the pay out name on the checks, example, which might create some more confusion.
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Google's empire
Step 1 - control how people locate information on the internet. Google Search
Step 2 - Control how people communitcate. Gmail, Google voice, blogger, google docs, etc...
step 3 Control who gets paid for advertising which products. I present google adsense and adwords.
Step 4 - Control how computers find resources on the internet. introducing google DNS.
Step 5 - Control how people use the information they find
Step 6 - Control which products people can buy.
Step 7 - control how payments are made.
Steps .... Control what we watch ( you tube). control What books we have access to, google books.
Just go down the list of products google has. They want to be everything to every one. The product of this is control of everything and everyone.
Forget big brother. What google is doing is far beyond anything Orwell could have dreamed.
And I wonder why I got blocked from adsense....
Everyone reading this should take a good close look at the Google terms of service. It gives them the right to do what they want when they want and how they want.
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Google's empire
Step 1 - control how people locate information on the internet. Google Search
Step 2 - Control how people communitcate. Gmail, Google voice, blogger, google docs, etc...
step 3 Control who gets paid for advertising which products. I present google adsense and adwords.
Step 4 - Control how computers find resources on the internet. introducing google DNS.
Step 5 - Control how people use the information they find
Step 6 - Control which products people can buy.
Step 7 - control how payments are made.
Steps .... Control what we watch ( you tube). control What books we have access to, google books.
Just go down the list of products google has. They want to be everything to every one. The product of this is control of everything and everyone.
Forget big brother. What google is doing is far beyond anything Orwell could have dreamed.
And I wonder why I got blocked from adsense....
Everyone reading this should take a good close look at the Google terms of service. It gives them the right to do what they want when they want and how they want.
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Google's empire
Step 1 - control how people locate information on the internet. Google Search
Step 2 - Control how people communitcate. Gmail, Google voice, blogger, google docs, etc...
step 3 Control who gets paid for advertising which products. I present google adsense and adwords.
Step 4 - Control how computers find resources on the internet. introducing google DNS.
Step 5 - Control how people use the information they find
Step 6 - Control which products people can buy.
Step 7 - control how payments are made.
Steps .... Control what we watch ( you tube). control What books we have access to, google books.
Just go down the list of products google has. They want to be everything to every one. The product of this is control of everything and everyone.
Forget big brother. What google is doing is far beyond anything Orwell could have dreamed.
And I wonder why I got blocked from adsense....
Everyone reading this should take a good close look at the Google terms of service. It gives them the right to do what they want when they want and how they want.
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Re: Google's empire
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Google AdSense
I setup and account but the code on my unknown, meaning I am the only one who knows about it, site and after a week they shut me off. I don't mind this if they'd really explain why they shut it off. What did I do wrong. Their appeal just said it would be bad for advertisers. A tech forum bad for advertisers.
Randy
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