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> plagiarized code snippets
I'm looking at the page that was taken down[1] and it seems to be largely full of pretty basic code snippets demonstrating how to use the Solvers module.
Your DMCA request[2] includes the statements that say, in part, that Fair Use has been considered, that you own the copyright, and that the information in that statement is true and accurate.
Could you elaborate what on that page you consider to be your copyrighted content, and how you came to hold that copyright? Is it the code snippets, as per your comment? Did your company have an employee write that content?
When the DMCA takedown request was being drafted, did someone consider whether those snippets are even qualifies as an Original Work? I'm getting at whether they contain even a minimal level of creativity, as the US Supreme Court has said is a requirement for copyright[3].
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220114132753/https://docs.symp...
[2] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/04/2022-04-1...
[3] https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/
Not the first time they've taken down Github repos, some with a legal basis (partial problem text, though Fair Use might overrule that if the cases ever made it to court), others with no involvement at all (https://github.com/egfx/React-Leaderboard still hasn't been restored, for example)
More information about previous DMCA abuse here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239594
Personally, I would not trust a company this unethical to certify anything.
Wait. Wait a minute. Just wait one little minute here...
Your company has issued a DMCA takedown notice for "plagiarized code snippets" against the library-in-questions own documentation? (The take down was issued against docs.sympy.org; linked directly within sympy's GIT repo README.md: https://github.com/sympy/sympy)
And this is an "initiative" your organization has undertaken? Have you thought this through?
Where should engineers who want to learn about sympy go to attain that knowledge?
Where did your team learn about and generate the assessment questions?
Where do you stop with this initiative? Would you issue takedown notices to MDN? Stack Overflow? What about VSCode Copilot?
I have solved and solve problems from HackerRank and other coding sites and publish my solutions on my repo: https://github.com/unobatbayar/problem-solving
Should I be worried? It's years of progressive work and already contains couple hundreds of solutions. Seems like it can be DMCA'ed any minute. How troublesome.