On August 16, Red Points Solution SL, claiming to represent Hearst SL, made false claims about copyright infringement to Google and had a page from New Zealand-owned fashion magazine Lucire removed from its index. The owner of the quotations and photographs cited in the article was L’Oréal, who licensed media to use them. The rest of the story was Lucire’s.
Red Points doubled-down on Friday, falsely claiming that Hearst SL owned materials from French Sole, a New York shoe company, BFA.com, and Lucire itself, in order to have further content from Lucire removed from Google. An additional notice was then sent on Monday, identifying content exclusively owned by Lucire.
Hearst SL is the Spanish outpost of US giant Hearst Communications, Inc., and the publisher of Harper’s Bazaar España.
‘What’s really concerning is that anyone can make these claims without any evidence and Google will believe them,’ says Lucire founder and publisher Jack Yan. ‘All you need to do is say you own something, tell Google, and they’ll remove the page from its index for you.’
He says there are chilling consequences for free speech and the freedom of the press. ‘It’s disturbing that Red Points Solution has been attacking legitimate media and effectively libelling them with their false accusations. Anyone can be attacked,’ he says.
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