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DMCA notice; on the sending end

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:28 pm
by Ambush Commander
Recently I noticed a blog on Google Blogger had reposted my tutorial on UTF-8. My first thought was "HOW DARE THEY?!" My second thought was, "Hey wait, I licensed it under LGPL; they're allowed to repost it."

Of course, LGPL also means that they have to properly credit me, and post the LGPL notice; the credit consisted of a measly link to the original HTML page at the bottom of the article, and of course, there was no LGPL notice. Honest mistake? Heck no; every post on the blog was a repost of material from somewhere else on the web.

The blog, btw, is from8to5.blogspot.com (I've not linkified on purpose)

So I'm seriously considering sending a DCMA notice to Google and having them take it down (Google is quite pussy-footed about these sorts of things, so I am fairly confident they would take down the blog). But I also don't want to be an hole, and I don't feel like spending too much time on something I really don't care about.

What would you all say I should do?

Re: DMCA notice; on the sending end

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:48 pm
by Syntac
Someone violated your rights. You deserve to be able to go ninja on them.