Michael I understand that this looks very, very much like an intentional act but you nor anyone else will ever be able to proof it. Surely some reserve from your side would have been more appropriate.michael blunck wrote:Please note that this wasn´t a "simple" copyright violation like so many before, but this time it was more of a "criminal" act, insofar some individual deliberately removed my custom license from a newGRF zip file, just to upload it anew an Bananas with a GPL license added.
What I miss in this entire discussion sofar is sanity and the responsibility of authors themselves. It is very easy to place them blame on content providers for violating copyrights but all they do is hosting content. The copyright breaking party is the uploader, intentionally or unintentionally. Finally, it is up to authors themselves to defend their copyright. You can be aided in this by other people who make you aware of a violation of course and ideally a content provider notices it. As an example I added a procedure that ties in with the DCMA. The example clearly shows that an author must file a complaint:
EDIT: Class 165 beat me to saying that it's the copyright holder's duty to track copyright violationsProcedure for Reporting Copyright Infringements wrote: If you believe that content residing on or accessible through this website or service infringes your copyright, please send a notice of claimed copyright infringement containing the following information to the Designated Agent listed below (consult legal counsel or refer to 17 U.S.C. 512(c) to confirm these requirements):
1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that has been allegedly infringed;
2. Identification of the copyrighted works claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the website to locate the material;
4. Contact information for the notifier, such as an address, telephone number and, if available, an e-mail address;
5. A statement that the notifier has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the notifying party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is allegedly infringed.
Once a complete and proper notice of claimed copyright infringement is received by the Designated Agent, or if the website otherwise comes to believe in good faith that a file on the the website service may contain material that infringes copyright it is the website's policy:
1. to remove or disable access to the content identified in the notice of claimed infringement;
2. to notify the content provider, member or user that it has removed or disabled access to the content; and
3. to terminate in appropriate circumstances subscribers and account holders who are repeat infringers.
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