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General Policies: Copyrighted material

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We encourage users to take full advantage of orkut.com to post and share their own information freely. You may post images copied from an orkut.com photo album or another photo site only if they are within the public domain or you have the rights to use these images. In addition, users should not post other copyrighted material in their profiles or communities. We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and promptly remove content if we receive a formal copyright complaint as described below.

Before filing a complaint, we suggest that you attempt to contact the individual who posted the copyrighted information on orkut.com to request that he or she removes it.

If this individual doesn't comply with your request, you can report a copyright issue by filing an official DMCA complaint.

To submit an official copyright complaint, you must own the copyright to the material in question or be authorised by the copyright holder to act on their behalf. You must clearly identify the material in question and provide us with the URL of the orkut page on which it appears.

If you own the copyright to material that you see in a feed or video, keep in mind that this content is imported from other sites. Please click the report abuse button on a video or the view website link on a feed to report copyright violations to the original source of the content. You can also file an orkut DMCA complaint regarding such material. An exact description of the material along with the URL must be included in the DMCA notice.

In addition, keep in mind that questionable content or third-party ads may be removed by the orkut team without advance warning. All content posted on orkut needs to adhere to our Terms of Service

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