I have been using adsense for 5 months and this month I made 700 $ but i have got an email from adsense support that has title Google AdSense DMCA Notice. When i write articles I use google image search to find images for my site and i upload this images to my site to make my site better. I have put 7 images for one article that is found in google image search and a big company (a paralegal )claimed that i have copied their pictures they own copyright for this figures I did not copy anything from their site they sell gifts and they have some copyrighted figures. If I do not responde, google says that they may revoke my account. A Paralegal sent a fax google and google sent this fax to me. I need advice PS: I do not live in US
Just because you found the images on google image search, does not mean you can use it on your own website. You violated copyright laws and need to take the pictures off your website.
I have already taken of them. But taking them of is not enough shall i respond or not need advice. They want me to send fax or mail not email with my name my address and etc "If we do not receive a counter-notification from you within 10 days, we may revoke your AdSense approval. If we did not do so, we may be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. See http://www.educause.edu/issues/dmca.html for more information about the DMCA" sorry for my english
this is what you will find on google images when you view images. Image may be subject to copyright. There is where your problem began at copy at paste images to your site.
google image search is great but it doesn't mean that its free, try and work it out with the person who claims they own the images
the person is a paralegal and i do not know what they want. If I send a respond, May they sue me. I do not want trouble because of some silly pictures copied from google image search If I knew I would not, I heard that some people had the same problem with youtube. If you link or embed a video you may have dmca problem. is there anybody here how to respond it
They will not sue you. You have received a DMCA notice, and complied. Notify them that you have complied, and the image in question was used by you in good faith that it was in public domain. I would probably specifically state that it wasn't and isn't your intention to use copyrighted images on your pages, and all other images on your site(s) are either owned by you are in public domain. IANAL, but that's what I'd probably do.
Obviously it wasn't in public domain or he wouldn't have gotten a DMCA. Public domain refers to the fact that the material in question is not owned or controlled by anyone or that the copyright has expired. Public domain does not mean "found it on the web".
You definitely should respond. They wont sue you for responding. The reason they contacted you was so they wouldn't have to sue, and as you've complied, they wont. Respond letting them know you've taken the pictures down, and you're sorry for the whole ordeal because you didn't realize these pictures weren't allowed for you to use, and that you wont add images again without ensuring they're owned by you or in the public domain.
Of course it wasn't in public domain. But that's the point of DMCA - telling people that "hey, I assume you probably thought you are using public domain material, but here I am, claiming copyright, so remove my material from your website". He should honestly state that he was not aware of the copyright ownership, and has not intention of disputing the the copyright claim. A person accidentally using copyrighted material is not really open to legal action if he complies with the DMCA notice.
thanks i will respond and i am going to write the result here i got my lesson whenever i use a video or image from internet i may get into trouble.
Stop taking images from Google Search, all of those belong to someone else! You used an image that you clearly say didn't belong to you and you're now seeing what happens when you do that. Remove the images, draw or take your own, and you'll be fine. I'd suggest using a paid image distributor if you can't draw and have no camera, you'll pay around a dollar an image but will stay out of trouble.
I am interested in your story, currently I use lots of YouTube videos to stream via my blog. I use the URL tag as the "embed" code does not coperate with wordpress. Can I get in trouble for these videos? The people who post the videos on youtube are not the rightful owner niether, thoughts and comments please!
On youtube you have a choice to make it public or private and you can also hide the embeded code...Maybe this is your way around it.
Yea, I think your right, I mean why else would they ALLOW you to URL or EMBED it... without being allowed to publish the videos.
i have searched and in other forums i have came across some people have dmca problems with videos so there is no difference it is video image or text anyone can claim that they have copyright and the site claims that it is free so just be careful