Warner Brothers is requesting removal of its official website as "copyright infringement" from Google search results

ByGage Skidmore

As a window when we want to delete information from search results displayed on Google search due to copyright infringement etc.Content removal request"We have set up the page of. This allows the copyright owner to request that the link to sell / introduce pirated copies such as illegal copies be removed from the search results, but the movie production studioWarner Bros.But it turned out that Google asked Google to delete its official website and Amazon's official DVD sales page.

Warner Bros. Flags Its Own Website as a Piracy Portal - TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-flags-website-piracy-portal-160904/


Warner Brothers reports own site as illegal - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37275603

Warner Bros. reports illegal pirated content to Google and other search engines and requests search results and index deletion. In particular, the number of reports has increased in 2016, and more than 4 million URLs suspected of copyright infringement are reported.

一方で、ワーナー・ブラザースのパートナーとして海賊版コンテンツを探し出しているVobileの削除依頼リストを見ると、海賊版コンテンツのURLに混じって、ワーナー・ブラザース自身が著作権を所有する映画「ダークナイト(http://www.warnerbros.com/dark-knight)」の公式ウェブサイトや、公式コンテンツをレンタル・販売するAmazonページ(https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Knight-Christian-Bale/dp/B001OGWY1W)などが記載されているのがわかります。


Other official contents on the domain of "warnerbros.com" and the official page of Warner of the movie database "IMDb" are deleted as "copyright infringement" about the movie "Matrix" and " Requested. It seems that it seems to make it difficult to locate legal content links by themselves, but this is because Vobile, which Warner Brothers entrusts to automate detection of pirated content, contains a wrong URL It is seen as thought to be.

In response to these deletion requests, Google announces that it will not do anything about domains with legitimate licenses such as Amazon · IMDb · Sky Cinema, but that "warnerbros.com" is still under investigation is. You can read the details of Vobile's removal request from the following page.

Vobile Inc - Request for copyright removal - Google transparency report
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/reporters/12924/Vobile-Inc/