by MollyRealized | 2026-01-07 18:53:24+00:00
IANAL, IANYL, and I am not his lawyer. I did work with publishing companies to get my grandmother's books freed up for CC0/public domain, but I'm at most a talented layman (and legal administrative assistant, but not in IP).

As far as I can understand from what the blog's author reproduced, it looks as if the problem was that his DMCA requests may have not been compliant. Go to [1] and do a Ctrl-F downward for "Elements of Notification."

If I were filing a DMCA request with Google, I would do it as follows, matching the requirements laid out for a valid DMCA notice. The below should not be considered legal advice or the practice of law.

[1] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

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Both via Google's webform and as an e-mail to: dmca-agent@google.com

To whom it may concern:

This is a notification of claimed infringement under 17 USC § 512(c)(3), for purposes of 17 USC § 512(d)(3). To maintain the limitation on liability under § 512(d), upon receipt you must respond expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the reference(s) or link(s) identified below.

If you believe that the material below is insufficient for the requirements of § 512(c)(3)(A), I ask you to specify precisely what you feel is absent from this notice yet necessary to meet those requirements.

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(ii)

I identify the copyrighted work as:
- Title: [FULL TITLE]
- Author: [AUTHOR]
- Copyright owner: [YOUR NAME / ENTITY]
- First publication date: [MONTH DAY, YEAR]
- ISBN/ISSN (if any): [NUMBER]
- U.S. Copyright Office registration no. (if any): [TX/VA/PA-…]
- An authorized copy is available from [PUBLISHER] at [BOOK PAGE ON PUBLISHER WEBSITE].
- The infringing material reproduces the work in full.

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(iii)

I identify both (1) the infringing material and (2) the specific reference(s)/link(s) on Google that must be removed or disabled as follows:

A. Infringing material (destination URL(s)):

1. [FULL INFRINGING URL 1]
2. [FULL INFRINGING URL 2]
(if the same file is reachable via more than one URL, list each exact variant you can find, including http/https, with/without "www", trailing slash, and direct PDF/EPUB links)

B. Specific Google reference(s)/link(s) to remove/disable (information-location results):

1. Google Search results page URL where the reference appears:
[PASTE THE FULL GOOGLE SEARCH URL SHOWING THE RESULT]
(Example format: https://www.google.com/search?q=…&… )
a. Google Surface: Google Search (web results) at google.com
b. Locale: United States / English

2. The specific result on that page that must be removed/disabled:
– Result position: [e.g., "Result #3 on the first page"]
– Result title as displayed: "[TITLE SHOWN IN RESULTS]"
– Displayed URL as shown: "[DISPLAYED URL]"
– Snippet text (first ~15–25 words as displayed): "[SNIPPET]"
– Target/destination URL that result resolves to when clicked: [INFRINGING URL]
– If available, the Google redirect URL for the result (copied via "Copy link address"):
[PASTE THE https://www.google.com/url?… LINK]

3. Any Google-served cached/stored version of the same infringing material (if present):
– Cache URL: [PASTE webcache.googleusercontent.com … URL]
(or: "The ‘Cached’ link (if shown) for the above result.")

4. When observed: [DATE + TIME, TIME ZONE]

5. Screenshot attached showing the result described above (due to webform limitations, attached on e-mail message only).

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(iv)

I am the complaining party. My name is [NAME]. My postal address is [POSTAL ADDRESS]. My telephone number is [TELEPHONE NUMBER]. My e-mail address is [E-MAIL ADDRESS]. [Alternately, use business contact information, or your agent's contact information.] Please redact this information in any public copy of this notice.

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(v)

I have a good faith belief that use of this material in the manner I am complaining of is not authorized by the copyright owner (myself), any agent that might have the right to authorize such use (there is none), nor the law.

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(vi)

By my electronic signature below (satisfying § 512(c)(3)(A)(i)), under penalty of perjury, I certify that the information I provide above is accurate, and further certify that as the owner of an exclusive right I allege is infringed, I am authorized to act on my own behalf.

/s/ NAME