LOS ANGELES: Google received requests to scrub 213 million links from its search engine in the first 12 weeks of 2016 because of copyright infringement, a Variety analysis of the company's data shows – an increase of 125% compared with the same period last year.
The search giant allows copyright holders to ask Google to omit Web addresses with allegedly infringing content, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the company has published data on the process since 2012.
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