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Pull Request Overview
This PR adds a new DMCA takedown notice from Revere Development regarding copyright infringement of their open-source project "Alley" (a Minecraft Practice PvP core) licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. The notice documents a case where a user who was denied commercial licensing cloned the repository, removed attribution and licensing information, and renamed it to obscure its origin.
- Addition of DMCA takedown notice for alleged copyright infringement
- Documents violation of CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license terms including removal of attribution and suspected commercial use intent
- Identifies infringing repository and provides contact information for the alleged infringer
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| **Please describe the nature of your copyright ownership or authorization to act on the owner's behalf.** | ||
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| I am the [private] of Revere Development (“Revere Group”), which owns the copyright to the open-source project Alley and its associated source code, README, and branding materials. |
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The hyphen character used in "open‑source" appears to be a special character (en-dash or non-breaking hyphen: ‑) rather than a standard hyphen (-). This should be changed to a regular ASCII hyphen for consistency with other DMCA notices in this repository.
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| **Please provide a detailed description of the original copyrighted work that has allegedly been infringed.** | ||
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| The copyrighted work is “Alley”, an open‑source project developed and maintained by Revere Development, primarily authored by [private] and [private]. |
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The hyphen characters used in "open‑source" appear to be special characters (en-dash or non-breaking hyphen: ‑) rather than standard hyphens (-). These should be changed to regular ASCII hyphens for consistency with other DMCA notices in this repository.
| The copyrighted work is “Alley”, an open‑source project developed and maintained by Revere Development, primarily authored by [private] and [private]. | |
| The copyrighted work is “Alley”, an open-source project developed and maintained by Revere Development, primarily authored by [private] and [private]. |
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| **How do you believe the license is being violated?** | ||
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| The repository in question is a direct copy of our project “Alley”, originally distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution‑NonCommercial‑ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0) license. |
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The hyphen characters used in "Attribution‑NonCommercial‑ShareAlike" appear to be special characters (en-dash or non-breaking hyphen: ‑) rather than standard hyphens (-). These should be changed to regular ASCII hyphens for consistency.
| The repository in question is a direct copy of our project “Alley”, originally distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution‑NonCommercial‑ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0) license. | ||
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| The infringer (DaGameDevKer) violated this license in the following ways: | ||
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| 1. Removal of attribution – they deleted our README file and license notice, erasing all reference to the original authors ([private], [private], and Revere Development), which is required under Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i–v) of the license. | ||
| 2. Misrepresentation of ownership – the repository was renamed to a random hash (“ansdousahdouha1390d”) to obscure its identity and origin. | ||
| 3. Commercial intent – the individual previously requested permission to use the software commercially, was denied after refusing our pricing terms (“Nope too expensive idc anymore”), and then cloned the project regardless, indicating an attempt to circumvent the “NonCommercial” clause (Section 2(a)(1)). | ||
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| These actions collectively represent a deliberate and knowing violation of the CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0 license and a breach of copyright law. |
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The hyphen characters used in "CC BY‑NC‑SA" appear to be special characters (en-dash or non-breaking hyphen: ‑) rather than standard hyphens (-). These should be changed to regular ASCII hyphens for consistency.
| The repository in question is a direct copy of our project “Alley”, originally distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution‑NonCommercial‑ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0) license. | |
| The infringer (DaGameDevKer) violated this license in the following ways: | |
| 1. Removal of attribution – they deleted our README file and license notice, erasing all reference to the original authors ([private], [private], and Revere Development), which is required under Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i–v) of the license. | |
| 2. Misrepresentation of ownership – the repository was renamed to a random hash (“ansdousahdouha1390d”) to obscure its identity and origin. | |
| 3. Commercial intent – the individual previously requested permission to use the software commercially, was denied after refusing our pricing terms (“Nope too expensive idc anymore”), and then cloned the project regardless, indicating an attempt to circumvent the “NonCommercial” clause (Section 2(a)(1)). | |
| These actions collectively represent a deliberate and knowing violation of the CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0 license and a breach of copyright law. | |
| The repository in question is a direct copy of our project “Alley”, originally distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. | |
| The infringer (DaGameDevKer) violated this license in the following ways: | |
| 1. Removal of attribution – they deleted our README file and license notice, erasing all reference to the original authors ([private], [private], and Revere Development), which is required under Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i-v) of the license. | |
| 2. Misrepresentation of ownership – the repository was renamed to a random hash (“ansdousahdouha1390d”) to obscure its identity and origin. | |
| 3. Commercial intent – the individual previously requested permission to use the software commercially, was denied after refusing our pricing terms (“Nope too expensive idc anymore”), and then cloned the project regardless, indicating an attempt to circumvent the “NonCommercial” clause (Section 2(a)(1)). | |
| These actions collectively represent a deliberate and knowing violation of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and a breach of copyright law. |
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