DMCA for saved searches
 

Let's say someone searches

Jenna Jameson to give an example of someone who ISN'T on my website.

My tube software, generates urls of saved searches.

I get DMCA'd for Jenna Jameson by her legal crew (this is an example) for that website with her search text but NO ACTUAL PICTURES OR VIDEOS OR WORKS on my site.

Do I have to take down the search SEO'd page?

mysite.com/search/jenna-jameson/ would be the DMCA'd work with NONE of her stuff on it besides the text that someone searched her name with.

Thoughts?

it is like driving a get away car. You did not rob the gas station but you"ll do the time if caught:2 cents:

edit: nevermind :)

One day Google will fuck you in the ass.

I've disabled this from indexing a month ago, and will be turning it off.

You should be far more concerned about someone potentially searching for terms related to ( <18 ) content and that URL residing on your site.

You don't have to do shit.

Having Google not show that one page in search doesn't effect the rest of your site. Google doesn't say, oh this bloke has 1000 URLs dmca now... Let's move him down in search for legit stuff. Each page on your site is like it's own site in this regard.

I guess this can only work if they have copyright on the name...

Very smart thinking. For this reason I'm dropping the ability to index these searches. :thumbsup

copyright != trademark or service mark

You'd probably win if taken to court. You can't have copyright for a name, only a trade mark and she's not the only person in the world with that name. They probably have a bot that sends dmca to any website with her name, presuming that it has her content on it.

Not commenting on your situation but Jenna Jameson is trademarked. FYI

Thanks sorry that was just an example. Good to know!

Thanks everyone for the comments. I decided it was best to remove the function from my script and continue blocking those from being indexed. :thumbsup