Copyright Claim Procedure
If you want to check to see if some one is copying your content from your WeBsite you can use Copyscape. The same company also offers Copysentry a product that will detect the plagiarism automatically and email you. This service is $4.95/mon for 10 pages and $0.25/mon per extra page for weekly checks. If you want daily checks the price is $19.95/mon for 10 page with the extra pages $1.00/mon.
When you find a Website that is displaying your copyrighted material there are a number of ways you can deal with it. You can contact the Website that has your material on their site and ask them to kindly take it down. You can contact the hosting company that is hosting the site and ask them to such the side down. I have found the latter to work the best.
Listen to Googles Audio Copyright Claims Procedure or view the Writen Copyright Claims Procedure to have the copyrighted material removed from their index.
For Google to investigate claims of alleged copyright infringement, the copyright owner must provide the following information in a signed letter on company stationery:
1. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed. For example, ‘The copyrighted work at issue is the text that appears on www.google.com/ads.’
2. Identify the material that you claim is infringing the copyrighted work listed in item #1 above. This requires you to provide the search query that you used and the URL for each allegedly infringing ad.
3. Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit Google to contact you (email address is preferred.)
4. Provide information, if possible, sufficient to permit Google to notify the owner or administrator of the web page that allegedly contains infringing material (email address is also preferred.)
5. Include the following statement: ‘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. Include the following statement: ‘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.
7. Your signature.
If some one incorrectly reports your content as a copyright infringement and Google removes your content from their index there is a process where you can sent Google a Counter Notification requesting the material in questions be reinstated.
The administrator of an affected site may make a counter notification. When we receive a counter notification, we will reinstate the material in question. To file a counter notification with us, you must provide a written communication that sets forth the items specified below.
1. Identify the specific URLs of material that Google has removed or to which Google has disabled access. For Google Groups, identify the sender, date, newsgroup, and subject matter of all the material in question.
2. Provide your name, address, telephone number, email address, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or Santa Clara County, California if your address is outside of the United States), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.
3. Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit Google to contact you (email address is preferred.)
4. Provide information, if possible sufficient to permit Google to notify the owner or administrator of the web page that allegedly contains infringing material (email address is preferred.)
5. Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that each search result or message identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.”
6. Your signature.
Copyright compaints and counter norifications can be sent by post mail or by fax. See the below address and fax numbers.
Address:
Google, Inc.
Attn: Google AdWords, Copyright Complaints
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA
Fax:
+1-650-618-1499
Attn: Google Copyright Complaints