Erik Ribsskog
Flat 3
5 Leather Lane
Liverpool 5. February 2008
GB-L2 2 AE
Great Britain
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA 94043
USA
COMPLAINT BLOGGER
I just wanted to please complain about a couple of issues surrounding Blogger.
1. Blogger let the company Arvato Ltd. remove my resume/C.V., and other
of my personal documents from work, from my blog, from these URL's:
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-8.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-9.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-15.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-16.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-17.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-18.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-19.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-20.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-21.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-22.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-23.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-24.html
http://johncons-mirror.blogspot.com/2007/10/enclosure-25.html
This was done, with the following reason: 'In accordance with the DMCA, we have completed
processing your infrigment complaint regarding the following URLs:'
I don't think it's right that my CV should be deleted from my blog, since it's says on my CV,
that I was working for 15 months for Arvato Ltd., on the Microsoft Scandinavian Product
Activation, in Liverpool.
I don't think, that even if the name 'Arvato', is protected by copyright, still I don't it's against
the law, to write the word 'Arvato', in a document, like this e-mail or in a CV.
And I also think one have the right to publish work-related documents, given to oneself
in person, at ones workplace, especially since this was part of a 'whistleblowing' process.
So I think this removal of documents from my blog, was a bit peculiar, so I would think it
would be very fine, if you could have had a look at this, and checked that everything was
done, in accordence with standard procedures in cases like this.
2 In the e-mail from support@blogger.com, from 10/23/07, it says that:
'We apologize for the mix up. Blogger has been notified, according to the
terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that some of your
images allegedly infringe upon the copyrights of others. The URLs of the
allegedly infringing images may be found at the end of this message.
The notice that we received, with any personally identifying information
removed, may be found at the following link:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=4463'.
I've been checking this, the mentioned link above, several times, since 23. October, but I can't
really say, that it has been possible, to see the notice Blogger recieved from Arvato Ltd. on the
mentioned URL at all.
So I was wondering if it please would be possible to update mentioned link, since the e-mail,
from Blogger, where it says that the notice from Arvato Ltd. would be possible to be found
on the chillingeffects-link, is more than three months old.
So I think it should have been possible to see the notice by now.
So I think it would be very fine, if Blogger could eighter update the link, or maybe send me a
copy of the notice, in an e-mail, since I'm a bit currious about what the notice says, since
I think, like I mentioned above, that the removal of my CV and the other files, was a maybe
a bit peculiar.
And, like I mentioned above, I'm also involved in a 'whistleblowing'-process, and harassment
at work legal-case, against the same Arvato Ltd. company, so I suspect that this, the
DMCA complaint, could be linked with the employement-case/whistleblowing process.
So I think it would be very fine, if it would be possible to please have a look at the mentioned
notice.
3. The reason, that I'm writing this letter, and not just sending another e-mail to
support@blogger.com, is that, I'm not receiving any more answer to the e-mails I sent
to Blogger support.
So I think it would be very fine, if it would be possible to please get a reason for why this is,
that I'm not recieving any answers to my latest e-mail.
(I'll enclose copies of these e-mails).
4. I was wondering, like I was writing in one of the last e-mails I sent support@blogger.com,
about how long time one have, if one wanted to file a DMCA counter-complaint, if one
wanter to complain about the removal of the files from the blogg.
Since, I thought that the removal of the files from my blog, could maybe seem a bit strange,
since I couldn't really see how my CV etc., could be connected with any type of copyright
infridgment.
So I'm trying to get some more advice on how to go forward with a DMCA counter-complaint,
and then I think it would be very useful, to know, if possilbe, how long time one have got,
if one wanted to file a counter-complaint like this.
So I think it would be very fine if you would have the oppertunity to help me with answering
these questions.
I'll also enclose copies of the correspondance between support@blogger.com, and myself.
So I hope this is alright, and thank you very much for your help in advance!
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog