Google is evil (and not just in China)

Published on Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:50PM CST by Michael Fraase in Intellectual property

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A few weeks ago my assistant editor at Utne notified me that someone had been republishing Utne material in total, without permission or so much as a credit line on Google’s Blogger. And of course, it was surrounded by Google AdSense ads.

I emailed a pretty terse infringement notice to the individual, Google’s abuse address, and the support address at Blogger.

Yesterday, two weeks later, I finally got a response from Blogger. To file a notice of infringement with Blogger, Google requires you to provide a written notice (no email allowed) along with the following:

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