On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:37 AM, michael <[email protected]> wrote: > However, I doubt flagging apps as inappropriate will have much of an > effect.
I am sure you are correct. To be honest, I was just trying to make you happy, because I am guessing that you won't like anything else that I tell you. AFAICT, the only proactive thing you can do to facilitate their removal is make sure the rights-holders (e.g., Disney) are aware of the possible copyright and trademark violations. They will file takedown notices if and when it suits them, as is their right. Plus, it also solves the problem of where they have indeed licensed those materials, infrequent as that may be. Beyond that, pick market segments where competition cannot gain an advantage by misuse of other firms' trademarks and copyrights. > Surely Google is already aware of the issue and choose not to > do anything about it. Doing so may well violate their DMCA safe harbor provisions and open them up to big-ticket lawsuits. I suspect that they are best served by following the DMCA rules, which requires takedown notices by the rights holders (e.g., Disney). They certainly are willing to remove apps when confronted with such a takedown notice (see the Tetris clone removal wave of a month or two ago). If you are interested in more on this subject, I encourage you to review the outcome of the Viacom lawsuit against Google for copyright violations on YouTube: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100623/1333269937.shtml If you wish to discuss the merits of the DMCA, or whether proactively removing things that might violate copyright or trademark would breach the safe harbor provisions, that's cool, but this is not the forum for it. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 1.6 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
