Closed music blogs getting back online

The six music blogs unceremoniously dumped by Google are in the process of getting back online. All bar one have of the blogs has been restored, or moved to alternate webhosting after Google’s Blogger service pulled the plug on the six blogs amid claims of illegal hosting of copyrighted content.

The six blogs – Pop Tarts, Masala, I Rock Cleveland, To Die By Your Side, It’s a Rap and Living Ears – were shut following Google’s receipt of DMCA notices compelling the company to remove the offending blogs. The blogs’ owners each claim to have been given permission to use the disputed tracks by the artists themselves or their record labels.

The bloggers also claim Google gave them no indication of how to file counter-claims against the notices in order to stop Google from closing the accounts. Each of the six blogs, which are big in their respective genres of music are hosting on Google’s Blogger platform.

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