I believe that the answer is that they do not do any verification.
What happens is that the original author of the copyrighted content
complains to them, then as part of the process of determining who is
right, they suspend your account.
This is all codified in the DMCA, which unfortunately is heavily biased
in favor of content producers at the expense of users and fair use. It's
the law, though, in the U.S. at least, so you have to abide by it.
On 10/27/2011 7:06 AM, Ricardo Amaral wrote:
This got me thinking about my own app and how Google verifies these
things. Depending on the material, it can be very easy for them to
know if the material is copyrighted and if the developer in question
have a license to use it. In my case, I don't think it's that easy.
I'm developing an app which will uses a couple of icon sets and I'm
developing a free and paid app. The free app will only be using icons
which specifically have a license that allow me to do so in a
commercial app (the same set of icons will be in both versions). In
the paid app, I'll be removing any icon set for which I don't have a
license to use. But how does Google now?
I'm thinking about a specific icon set which is free to download and
free to use under certain circumstances, one of them is not a paid
app. But I could have bought a license to use it. Will they just
ignore a situation like this (even if I was in violation of the
copyrighted material), they really dig into the matter or they just
cancel the account? I mean, the only way for them to know for sure (I
repeat, on this specific situation) is to contact me and ask me for
some kind of proof that I really have bought a license for those
icons, or contact the icon author and ask if a guy with my developer
account name has ever ought a license for them. Do they really do that?
Not that I'm trying to find how their process works to circumvent it,
I just don't want to get my account suspended because they didn't take
the time to really find out if I was in violation of copyrighted
material or not. I'm really trying to avoid using stuff that I don't
have a license for. I believe in giving credit where credit is due and
if I want to use copyrighted material for which I need to pay first, I
will, otherwise I won't use it.
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