Google has received more than 30 million requests in the past month to remove search results because of copyright-infringement claims.

Requests are made under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

In a transparency report posted on the company website, Mountain View, Google said the requests came from 4,547 copyright owners and 2,244 reporting organisations.

More than 47,000 internet domains were targeted. Leading the list of copyright owners seeking removal of search results is an entity comprising members of the British Recording Music Industry trade group, with 6.3 million search results targeted.

Second is Froytal Services, which does business as Babes and operates adult-content websites.

The music companies that are members of the Recording Industry Association of America came in third.

Bloomberg