How to report copyright infringement to Google DMCA

One of the ways to prevent website content theft is to report copyright infringement to Google DMCA. If one day you encounter other websites copying your content without citing the original article link (backlink), you can report it to Google to protect your website content, as well as your children. your brainchild.

Things to know before doing it

If this is your first time reporting DMCA copyright infringement to Google, read through these contents to be well prepared.

Give them a chance to correct their mistakes

Lucid Gen would like to suggest a more peaceful solution before reporting copyright infringement to Google. Email the offending website owner and ask them to delete the article or add a backlink to your original article. Give them 3 to 7 days to correct the mistake. The content of the email must be serious and deterrent, but not vulgar.

Lucid Gen suggests this method because of the element of “sympathy” among professionals. Maybe they are also trying to make a living to support their families, maybe they also do not know the serious consequences they will receive from content copyright infringement, and maybe that website was their passion child when it was discovered. They first made a website. Give them a chance to correct their mistake. If they don’t correct it, it’s not too late for you to report it.

Consequences of a website being reported to Google DMCA

“Every mistake has a price” is a familiar saying in every profession. If they violate DMCA content copyright and you successfully report it to Google, they must bear the following consequences.

1. Violating content is removed from search results.
   If Google approves your content copyright infringement report. All offending URLs will be removed from search results.
2. SEO and overall search rankings are affected.
   If a series of URLs are lost from search results, traffic will decrease, and the SEO performance of other content will also be negatively affected.
3. Google rates pirated websites low.
   Google hates copyright infringement the most in their playground. Someone told Lucid Gen that if a domain name is successfully reported for content copyright infringement, that domain name will be considered “abandoned”.

You must be the author of the article

It may sound redundant, but Lucid Gen wanted to write this section to send to those who intend to “rob and scream simultaneously”. There have been many cases where the pirate has reported copyright infringement to the real author. It’s funny, no one will sit still and let them do that. Authors can appeal to Google with all their evidence and are usually successful. At this point, the stealing party will have the infringing content removed and bear the consequences mentioned above by Lucid Gen, and Google will reduce trust in them in future lawsuits.

Using DMCA is an advantage

There are many ways to help authors prove that their content was stolen, for example, they inserted logos into images before it was stolen, and their content was indexed as soon as possible… Then using DMCA also gives you an advantage when reporting copyright infringement to Google. If Google requires the author to provide additional information for the report, the DMCA can help the real author state that their article is protected by the DMCA sooner than the infringing website.

How to report copyright infringement Google DMCA

Submit a copyright infringement report to Google

Step 1: Visit reportcontent.google.com/forms/dmca_search to report DMCA copyright infringement and fill in the contact information section.

• Name:  your name.
• Last name:  your last name.
• Company name:  can be left blank.
• The copyright owner you represent:  The user themselves. Check the confirmation mark.
• Email address:  your email, preferably Gmail managing your website’s Google Search Console.
• Country/Region:  Vietnam.
• Is the submitted information related to the unauthorized streaming of an upcoming live event? No.

Step 2:  Fill in the URLs to copy your content. Includes 3 parts as follows.

• Identify and describe the copyrighted work:  you paste the copied content here, you can also paste your image URL, a maximum of 500 characters.
• Where we can see licensed samples of your work:  The URL containing the original content on your website.
• Location of the infringing material:  URL containing copied content on the thief’s website.

Step 3:  Check all the terms below, fill in the date of sending the complaint and your Full Name in the signature and send.

View report results

You can review how to report DMCA copyright violations and their processing status at reportcontent.google.com/dashboard.

• Accepted URLs: Google has reviewed and removed the violating URLs from search results.
• Rejected URL: Google did not approve, you need to report back but provide more accurate information, maybe Google will send you an email asking for more information.
• Pending URL: Please wait a while; getting results will take about 3 to 7 days.

If your report is convincing enough, Google will remove the infringing URLs from search results and notify the violating party. If your report is not convincing enough, Google will email you to ask you to provide more information to accuse the violating party. Read more below to refer to Lucid Gen’s actual case study.

Provide additional information if Google requests it

Google will send you an email asking you to provide additional evidence to accuse the party of stealing the content if your DMCA copyright infringement report is not convincing.

The example below is the case where Lucid Gen reported copyright infringement on 181 URLs of a website that used Lucid Gen’s content and images on their website. Because of some reports, Google asked me to provide more information to prove their violation.

You need to use English to respond to Google’s emails, using Google Translate is also fine. In this response email, please clearly indicate where the other party has violated and provide additional evidence to prove that this content is your creation.

After 3 to 7 days, Google responded to Lucid Gen and as a result, the other 181 URLs were removed from search results.

How to retract a Google DMCA copyright infringement report

If you and the copyright infringer have reached an amicable agreement and they remove the infringing content or add backlinks for you, you can retract your Google copyright report. Please send the following content to Google.

Receiver:

removals@google.comCopy

Title:

Retract my take down caseCopy

Content:

Dear Google team

I want to retract my take down case.

X-XXXXXXXXXXXXX

I have been able to contact the infringing webstie owner and they have agreed to change the infringing content.

Thank you very much!Copy

Please use the email address where you sent the copyright infringement report or the website’s own domain Gmail to send this email.

After 3 to 7 days, Google will notify you that they have reinstated the URLs allegedly violated by DMCA copyright in the search results.

Conclusion

If you report copyright infringement to Google, you can also use several other ways to proactively prevent web scraping (scraping of website content). If your rankings are not affected by copyright infringers, you can ignore them, because Google still knows that your content is original (if you index first), but a website has quality content. quantity will be stolen by others. Did you find this article useful to you? Please leave a comment below the article to share your opinion.