Ah, I just re-designed the site about a month ago and didn't realize the links to those pages are missing. These are the two pages that I have and will fix tonight when I am at home: http://aftercredits.com/general-disclaimer/ and http://aftercredits.com/privacy-policy/.
Do you think that will help? On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:48:12 AM UTC-6, Trevor wrote: > > In my layman's point of view, what strikes me immediately about your site > is that after spending a few minutes looking around, I could not find any > acknowledgement whatsoever regarding the intellectual property rights of > the owners of the media or text you're placing on your website. > > From what I gather from reading of various persons' problems with Google's > review process, it does seem that the process is very formulaic without > much chance of recourse or discretion. I can only imagine that the reviewer > has looked at your app and probably followed some kind of checkbox process > that says: Does the app use or reference the IP of others either in the app > or an external reference? Yes. OK, are those IP property rights > acknowledged (or whatever)? A quick scan over it says... nope. Therefore > hit the reject button. > > As I say, this is purely a layman's point of view. I know little more than > the average person about IP about copyright. But it does surprise me to > find no disclaimer or acknowledgement on your site, similar to for example > what you find on other sites related to films, such as this for example: > http://www.rottentomatoes.com/copyright/ > > Cheers, > > Trev > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:04 PM, C.R. <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I run a website called "What's After The Credits?" at AfterCredits.com; >> which has been around for about six years now. I've been working with a >> developer to create a simple app to go along with my site. This is >> something that I've been working on for nearly 3 years, but finally found >> someone who would be willing to work sort of pro-bono, meaning I won't get >> the ad revenue from the app, but the app links to my site. Also about >> 85-90% of my visitors come via mobile devices. >> >> So, he made the app and submitted it to Google but they first removed it >> because "Intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior". >> So I wrote up a letter on company letterhead stating that I was working >> with the developer and that I give him full permission to use my >> "intellectual property" and link to my site for the purposes of this app. >> But then Google just got back to him stating: >> "Hi, >> >> Thank you for reaching out to the Google Play team. >> >> After further review, we are unable to reinstate your application. You >> can find out more information under Reason for Removal in the initial >> removal notification from Google Play. If your account is still in good >> standing and the nature of your app allows for republishing, you may >> consider releasing a new, policy compliant version of your app to Google >> Play under a new package name. >> >> If you do choose to re-publish a new, policy-compliant version of your >> app, please make sure to review the Content Policy >> <https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html> and visit >> the Policy Help Center >> <https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/113474?hl=en> >> for >> additional guidance to ensure your next app is compliant with the policy. >> >> Due to the volume of appeals, we will be unable to respond to follow-up >> queries where we have no new information to share. >> >> Regards, >> The Google Play Team" >> >> So, what's going on here? Can anyone clarify why Google keeps denying >> this app? I give him full permission to use my site and it's property, why >> do they keep denying it? Oh, and the app is called "After Credits" since >> that's what I use everywhere on social media as well as being the URL of my >> site (e.g. aftercredits.com, facebook.com/aftercredits, >> twitter.com/aftercredits, etc.). >> >> Thanks in advance for any help and/or suggestions with this issue. >> >> -- >> 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] >> <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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