How to file a copyright notice with Bing
Bing has a free form for copyright notices about links in its results. This guide walks through every field and gives you the values to paste. You file the notice yourself.
Bing's form covers links that appear in Bing or that Bing provides to Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo says it largely sources its traditional links and images from Bing. Removing a result does not delete the page, so send a notice to the site or its host as well.
Step by step
Collect the URLs
Copy the exact address of every page that shows your work. For an image, Bing asks for the page URL and the image URL.
Open the form
Open Bing's copyright notice form. Bing asks for one notice per work, so file a separate notice for each set or video.
Fill in each field
Enter your name, email and the URLs in the helper below. It shows the value for each field and what to fill in yourself, with a copy button.
Check DuckDuckGo afterwards
Once Bing has removed a result, check DuckDuckGo. If the link still shows there, DuckDuckGo's help page tells you how to contact it.
What to expect
Bing does not publish a processing time for copyright notices. Keep a record of what you filed and when, and check the results again after a few days.
Bing's form says it shares the notice: Microsoft forwards copyright notices to the Lumen database, which publishes them, and may pass them to the site owner. The name you file under can become visible that way.
Bing's form reminds filers that the photographer, not the person in the photo, usually owns the copyright. If someone else took the photos, a copyright notice from you may not be the right route.
Intimate images and pages that are gone
For intimate images shared without consent, Microsoft has a separate report form, which you file yourself or on behalf of someone else. It is a separate route from copyright.
Microsoft's help says that content still live on a website can only be removed by the site owner. Bing's Content Removal Tool is for pages that are gone (the URL returns 404 or 410) or that have changed, so Bing updates its result.
Filing for many URLs every week takes time. If you would rather have it done for you, we file these requests as your agent and check that each result is gone. See search engine de-indexing
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Frequently asked questions
Is filing with Bing free?
Yes. Bing's copyright notice form is free to use. This guide and the field helper are free too, and need no account with us.
Does one Bing notice also cover Yahoo?
Bing's form covers links that appear in Bing or that Bing provides to Yahoo. DuckDuckGo largely sources its traditional links from Bing, so check it after Bing has acted.
Does removing a result delete the content?
No. Bing removes the link from its results; the page stays on the site until the site or its host removes it.
Do you see what I type in the helper?
No. The values are put together in your browser and are not sent to Adult Model Protection or stored; the helper is excluded from session replays. You paste them into Bing's form yourself.
Sources
- Bing copyright notice form (opens in a new tab)
- How to remove content from Bing and Copilot, Bing Webmaster Tools (opens in a new tab)
- Report a concern to Microsoft (intimate imagery) (opens in a new tab)
- DuckDuckGo search result sources (opens in a new tab)
- Can a result be removed from DuckDuckGo? (opens in a new tab)