{"id":5475,"date":"2016-09-06T21:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/09\/06\/warner-bros-asks-google-to-remove-its-own-website-due-to-copyright-infringement\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T21:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:53:29","slug":"warner-bros-asks-google-to-remove-its-own-website-due-to-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/09\/06\/warner-bros-asks-google-to-remove-its-own-website-due-to-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. asks Google to remove its own website due to copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f201230%2fscreen_shot_2016-09-06_at_3.09.25_pm\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/CExofBtbyabB3-Kr8pSt3AsuHIw=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F201230%2FScreen_Shot_2016-09-06_at_3.09.25_PM.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Warner+Bros.+asks+Google+to+remove+its+own+website+due+to+copyright+infringement&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F09%2F06%2Fwarner-bros-dmca%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F09%2F06%2Fwarner-bros-dmca%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>First rule of filing DMCA takedown notices: Do not ask for your own site to be taken down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. would do well to heed that advice in the future. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/lumendatabase.org\/notices\/12882815#\">DMCA copyright complaint<\/a> to Google, filed on behalf of Warner Bros. by copyright protection company Vobile and first <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/warner-bros-flags-website-piracy-portal-160904\/\">noticed<\/a> by <em>TorrentFreak<\/em>, asks for two of Warner Bros.&#8217; own websites to be taken down. Some other sites on the list, including Amazon, are also obviously listed in error.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/13\/youtube-content-id-piracy-update\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">YouTube has paid $2 billion to rights holders through Content ID<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The sites in question are WB&#8217;s official sites for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warnerbros.com\/matrix\"><em>The Dark Knight<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warnerbros.com\/dark-knight\"><em>The Matrix<\/em><\/a>. As you can see in one of the screenshots below, Amazon&#8217;s entirely innocuous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Knight-Christian-Bale\/dp\/B001OGWY1W\">page<\/a> \u2014 in fact, a page where people can legally buy copies of <em>The Dark Knight<\/em> \u2014 is listed as a transgressor as well.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/09\/06\/warner-bros-dmca\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/google\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/takedown-notice\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Takedown Notice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/dmca\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Dmca<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/warner-bros.\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Warner Bros.<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/dr54xfeCFvA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First rule of filing DMCA takedown notices: Do not ask for your own site to be taken down.\u00a0 Warner Bros. would do well to heed that advice in the future. A recent DMCA copyright complaint to Google, filed on behalf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/09\/06\/warner-bros-asks-google-to-remove-its-own-website-due-to-copyright-infringement\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4096,850,4095,725,879],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-dmca","tag-google","tag-takedown-notice","tag-tech","tag-warner-bros"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}