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Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Google AdWords

It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. This page describes the information that should be present in these notices. It is designed to make submitting notices of alleged infringement to Google as straightforward as possible while reducing the number of notices that we receive that are fraudulent or difficult to understand or verify. The form of notice specified below is consistent with the form suggested by the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site, http://www.copyright.gov but we will respond to notices of this form from other jurisdictions as well.

Regardless of whether we may be liable for such infringement under local country law or United States law, our response to these notices may include removing or disabling access to material claimed to be the subject of infringing activity and/or terminating subscribers. If we remove or disable access in response to such a notice, we will make a good-faith attempt to contact the owner or administrator of the affected site or content so that they may make a counter notification. We may also document notices of alleged infringement on which we act. Please note that a copy of each legal notice we receive may be forwarded to the alleged infringing advertiser.

Infringement Notification for AdWords

To file a notice of infringement with us, you must submit the form provided below. Please note that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is infringing your copyrights. Indeed, in a recent case (please see http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/ for more information), a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees. The company agreed to pay over $100,000. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether material available online infringes your copyright, we suggest that you first contact an attorney.

Instructions: In order to file this, we need you to:

* Required fields

Contact Information: Please provide us with information about yourself.
Your Name*:
Your Title:
Company Name*:
Copyright Holder You Represent*:
Email Address*:
Google AdWords Customer ID (if any):
Country of Residence*:

Your Copyrighted Work: Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed. For example: The text that appears on http://www.legal.com/legal_page.html

Location of copyrighted work (where your authorized work is located): *

What is the copyrighted work?: *

Location of Infringing Material: Identify the material that you claim is infringing the copyrighted work listed above. You must identify each ad that directly links to a web page that allegedly contains infringing material. This requires you to provide (a) the search query that you used, and (b) the ad text and visible URL for each allegedly infringing ad result. (Note that the visible URL for each ad appears as the last line in each ad result.)
I have more than five ads to submit and am attaching a spreadsheet in lieu of filling out this section
	*Search term(s):**	*Ad texts:**	*Visible URL of the ad:**	*URL of the landing page:**
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The visible URL of the ad(s) is located in the last line of the ad. URL of the landing page is the URL of the page linked from the ad.

Legal Affirmations: Please check if you agree with the following statements. IMPORTANT: Please note that we cannot investigate your complaint if you do not check both boxes.
*	I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
*	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..

Signature

Signed on this date of: *

Signature: *

Your digital signature is as legally binding as a physical signature.

If multiple Google products are affected, please submit a notice for each affected product. Instructions for filing a DMCA notice for each product can be found at http://www.google.com/dmca.html.

Account Termination

Many Google Services do not have account holders or subscribers. For Services that do, Google will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate repeat infringers. If you believe that an account holder or subscriber is a repeat infringer, please follow the instructions above to contact Google's DMCA agent and provide information sufficient for us to verify that the account holder or subscriber is a repeat infringer.