Unfortunately, Google won't talk to you about it at all nor will they give you any more details. I personally had an account terminated over a year ago for similar reasons. Long story short. You cannot make a quick buck off of other peoples work, celebrity fame and so forth. Any of your apps need to have 100% original content. Regardless of whether you say unofficial or not affiliated. You simply cannot use anyone's name or a company name or display any of their content from within your app. Like others have mentioned, you may link to their site but it cannot open in your application. I'm sure you are saying to yourself, but what about all the other apps in the market that do this. They will eventually be taken down as well.
I have a website protected by dmca and would immediately file for infringement if anyone displays my dubstep music, name or logos within their app. I'm not a lawyer but I've been there and done that. Now I use all original content . If I were you then I would unpublish any questionable app if you have any more like it. If you get too many apps suspended then you will lose your account indefinitely. If making apps is something you would like to continue then try and find some new ideas. I know its hard but there is a lot of open source projects out there which you can use for development as well as the entire aosp. Just make sure you use Apache 2 projects. If you use any gpl content at all then you need to make your app open source under gpl as well or risk further violations. I really hope this explains the situation enough for people and in more layman terms so people understand. -- 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
