Transparency Report

Copyright owner view

Universal Music Group

URLs requested to be delistedJan 01, 2012Jan 01, 2014Jan 01, 2016Jan 01, 2018Jan 01, 2020Jan 01, 2022Jan 01, 2024020,00040,00060,00080,000100,000

This chart shows the number of URLs requested to be delisted from Google Search at the request of this copyright owner over time.

Copyright owners

Legal frameworks enable copyright owners—also referred to as copyright holders—to submit requests to delist content for copyright infringement. Google receives requests from both copyright owners and reporting organizations, who may or may not be the owners of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Specified domainURLsLast request date
filestube.com67,228Oct 1, 2012
rapidlibrary.com43,870Oct 1, 2012
dilandau.eu42,095Oct 1, 2012
beemp3.com36,206Oct 1, 2012
4shared.com30,946Oct 1, 2012
zippyshare.com28,231Mar 23, 2020
filespart.com22,014Oct 1, 2012
mp3skull.com21,086Oct 1, 2012
filesonicsearch.com20,230Oct 1, 2012
filetram.com18,450Oct 1, 2012
Reporting organizationURLsLast request date
BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Ltd594,779Oct 1, 2012
proMedia5,998Feb 18, 2025
IFPI4,207Oct 12, 2023
AudioLock.NET Limited3,657Jan 26, 2019
Web Sheriff853Apr 10, 2020
Promedia236Nov 1, 2016
Warren Hopkins149Dec 6, 2021
Roger Parks119Dec 6, 2021
Police du Net inc113Mar 2, 2021
Police du net112Sep 28, 2017

All requests made by copyright owner

Request IDDateReporting organizationURLs% of URLs delisted% of URLs not in index
30568299Feb 18, 2025proMedia140%100%
30338820Feb 9, 2025proMedia10%100%
30310765Feb 8, 2025proMedia10%100%
30305340Feb 7, 2025proMedia200%100%
30065123Jan 29, 2025proMedia350%100%
29695757Jan 13, 2025proMedia40%100%
29575266Jan 12, 2025proMedia10%100%
29590780Jan 10, 2025proMedia10%100%
29636449Jan 10, 2025proMedia10%100%
29597080Jan 10, 2025proMedia1315%85%

Copyright owner details

This copyright owner or its authorized representative submitted 610,236 URLs over 4,546 individual requests to be delisted from Search results.

Copyright owner outcomes

RemovedNot in indexNo action takenDuplicate6.1%92.5%
Removal statusCount
Removed564,280
Not in index6,122
No action taken2,379
Pending0
Duplicate37,455

This chart shows the outcomes of each URL in each notice that identifies this owner as the copyright owner.

Copyright and access to information

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