For starters a lot of the applications I offer on the market are free, the ones that I do charge for are so low cost, and an attempt to recover the development costs of the applications. I certainly haven't made £100's out of any applications.
I sourced the images I used from the web and in most cases edited the files to better fit the devices. What is the difference between me re-displaying the images sourced from public domain sites to Google displaying the images in the 'Images' section of its online search? On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Christopher Van Kirk < [email protected]> wrote: > I believe that the answer is that they do not do any verification. > > What happens is that the original author of the copyrighted content > complains to them, then as part of the process of determining who is right, > they suspend your account. > > This is all codified in the DMCA, which unfortunately is heavily biased in > favor of content producers at the expense of users and fair use. It's the > law, though, in the U.S. at least, so you have to abide by it. > > > On 10/27/2011 7:06 AM, Ricardo Amaral wrote: > > This got me thinking about my own app and how Google verifies these things. > Depending on the material, it can be very easy for them to know if the > material is copyrighted and if the developer in question have a license to > use it. In my case, I don't think it's that easy. > > I'm developing an app which will uses a couple of icon sets and I'm > developing a free and paid app. The free app will only be using icons which > specifically have a license that allow me to do so in a commercial app (the > same set of icons will be in both versions). In the paid app, I'll be > removing any icon set for which I don't have a license to use. But how does > Google now? > > I'm thinking about a specific icon set which is free to download and free > to use under certain circumstances, one of them is not a paid app. But I > could have bought a license to use it. Will they just ignore a situation > like this (even if I was in violation of the copyrighted material), they > really dig into the matter or they just cancel the account? I mean, the only > way for them to know for sure (I repeat, on this specific situation) is to > contact me and ask me for some kind of proof that I really have bought a > license for those icons, or contact the icon author and ask if a guy with my > developer account name has ever ought a license for them. Do they really do > that? > > Not that I'm trying to find how their process works to circumvent it, I > just don't want to get my account suspended because they didn't take the > time to really find out if I was in violation of copyrighted material or > not. I'm really trying to avoid using stuff that I don't have a license for. > I believe in giving credit where credit is due and if I want to use > copyrighted material for which I need to pay first, I will, otherwise I > won't use it. > -- > 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 > > > -- > 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 > -- Regards, Sy -- 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
