I have spend the past couple of hours reading about DMCA complaints and I am more confused than before I started, a complicated technical issue on my side is also not making things easier for me, so I am turning to this great community for help once again. I have 110-pages/posts of proper quality content on my website, all of the content is legit and self produced except for 7-content pieces, which I admit is from another website...my website ranks nr 1 for those 7-urls. Google Search Console MessageGoogle has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital  Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that some of the material found on  your site allegedly infringes upon the copyrights of others. Were in  the process of removing the allegedly unlawful materials from Google  Search results.The notice that we received, with any personally identifying  information removed, may be found on the website of Chilling Effects,  a third-party aggregator of legal complaint notices, at  http://lumendatabase.org/notices/xxxxxxxxx.Please note that it may take several weeks for the notice to be posted  on the above page.What you can do next:File a Counter Notice If you feel that your sites or pages were  mistakenly removed due to a DMCA request filed against you, Google can  reinstate these materials into our search results upon receipt of a  DMCA Counter Notification. Speak to a lawyer If you have legal  questions about this notification, you may wish to speak to your own  lawyer.   Here are the affected URL(s):www.example.com/example-post1www.example.com/example-post2 The DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines  for online service provider liability in case of copyright  infringement. Were in the process of removing from Google Search  results the materials that allegedly infringe upon the copyrights of  others. If we didnt do so, we could be subject to a claim of  copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. See this DMCA FAQ  for more details.  Read about the Google legal removal process inLegal Removal Requests in our Help Center.  Ask questions in our  forum for more help - mention message type [WNC-594600].Questions:Considering I have 1 and only 1 complaint from 1 source about 7 different urls on my website, is it likely to effect my rankings, for other pages? If yes will I ever be able to recover from this?What should I do just leave pages and everything as is or delete and remove the pages with a 410 (gone response), the pages still gets a lot of traffic from social despite it not being in the google index anymore?Ideally I would just like this to blow over, with as little effect on my site as possible...what is the adviced strategy I should take hereSIDE NOTE: The domain I took the content from has no privacy or usage policy, can this count in my favor should I dispute the claim.....it simply says at the footer of the page copyright www.example.com, all rights reserved Many Thanks for reading
Notice of DMCA Content removal from Google Search
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