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Search Snippets Bringing Up Copyright Infringers

         

IanTurner

11:59 am on Jul 19, 2016 (gmt 0)

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So far this year I've had a couple of search snippets (the boxes showing some text at the top of the SERPs) that have been from sites that have just taken my content and dropped it on their pages. Has anyone else seen copyright infringements being used by Google in this way?

Wilburforce

2:08 pm on Jul 19, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Not yet, but it doesn't surprise me.

This situation is very interesting. In my own experience, where infringing material has been published on their servers (e.g. blogspot) they have been very prompt to remove it when they are alerted.

Here (as it in their results), it is obviously published on their servers, but at the same time has been generated by their algorithm from material published elsewhere. In my view this has important implications for their snippets, as anything published in a snippet could be infringing in the same way.

What have you done about it (or what do you intend to do)?

IanTurner

2:33 pm on Jul 19, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I have raised DMCA notices and Google dealt with the first fairly promptly and removed the offending material - the second was earlier today.

It just seemed to me that the snippets are raising sites to prominence that have been buried up to now, possibly for good reasons (i.e. duplicate content).
 


 


 


 

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