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> Haier issued the takedown notice specifically on copyright grounds
From the original letter they sent [1]:
>> We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you (https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn) that are in violation of our terms of service. Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner which is causing significant economic harm to our Company.
From their subsequent correspondence also shown on that page:
>> Recently, we've observed a substantial increase in AWS calls attributed to your plugin, prompting the communication you previously received as standard protocol for our company,
This is true:
> Google and Oracle already battled this one out, and it was decided that using an API is fair use
but not really relevant here. It just means that if you copy someone else's API that is not a copyright issue. It does not mean you have permission to call an implementation of that API that is running on their servers. That is out of scope as far as copyright goes.
[1] https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/blob/main/takedown_faq.md
> Haier issued the takedown notice specifically on copyright grounds
From the original letter they sent [1]:
>> We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you (https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn) that are in violation of our terms of service. Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner which is causing significant economic harm to our Company.
From their subsequent correspondence also shown on that page:
>> Recently, we've observed a substantial increase in AWS calls attributed to your plugin, prompting the communication you previously received as standard protocol for our company,
This is true:
> Google and Oracle already battled this one out, and it was decided that using an API is fair use
but not really relevant here. It just means that if you copy someone else's API that is not a copyright issue. It does not mean you have permission to call an implementation of that API that is running on their servers. That is out of scope as far as copyright goes.
[1] https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/blob/main/takedown_faq.md