Process DMCA request

2021/10/2021-10-25-german-autolabs.md

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+While GitHub did not find sufficient information to determine a valid anti-circumvention claim, we determined that this takedown notice contains other valid copyright claim(s).
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+**Are you the copyright holder or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf?**
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+Yes, I am authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
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+**Are you submitting a revised DMCA notice after GitHub Trust & Safety requested you make changes to your original notice?**
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+No
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+**Does your claim involve content on GitHub or npm.js?**
+
+GitHub
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+**Please describe the nature of your copyright ownership or authorization to act on the owner's behalf.**
+
+The github account "webrtcman" illegally copied a software library from our github repo, that is licenced by us from a 3rd party . We are German Autolabs GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany, and the original owner of the software library is [private] ([private]: [private]) .
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+We have contacted the account owner via [private] and asked for immediate closure of the repo, but have not received a response yet, neither was the repo closed.
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+**Please provide a detailed description of the original copyrighted work that has allegedly been infringed. If possible, include a URL to where it is posted online.**
+
+https://github.com/webrtcman/Cerence-SDK
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+This is a licenced software library owned by [private] ([private]: [private]) , so we are not at liberty to disclose any detailed nature or content description.
+
+**What files should be taken down? Please provide URLs for each file, or if the entire repository, the repository’s URL.**
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+The entire repository including all files needs to be taken down,
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+https://github.com/webrtcman/Cerence-SDK
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+**Do you claim to have any technological measures in place to control access to your copyrighted content? Please see our <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice#complaints-about-anti-circumvention-technology">Complaints about Anti-Circumvention Technology</a> if you are unsure.**
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+Yes
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+**What technological measures do you have in place and how do they effectively control access to your copyrighted material?**
+
+access status to all copyrighted, licensed and otherwise sensitive data and files is set to private. Here, we mistakenly set one single repo status to "public" and corrected the mistake (by closing the repository) as soon as we realised it.
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+**How is the accused project designed to circumvent your technological protection measures?**
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+We assume that the account owner is hosting copyrighted software, including the one mentioned here, on his github account to offer illegal copies
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+**<a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy#b-what-about-forks-or-whats-a-fork">Have you searched for any forks</a> of the allegedly infringing files or repositories? Each fork is a distinct repository and must be identified separately if you believe it is infringing and wish to have it taken down.**
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+yes, we have searched other instances of Cerence software acros github, but we found nothing that originated from our own github repos
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+**Is the work licensed under an open source license?**
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+No
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+**What would be the best solution for the alleged infringement?**
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+Reported content must be removed
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+**Do you have the alleged infringer’s contact information? If so, please provide it.**
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+we contacted the infringer via the email indicated on his/her github account, [private]
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+**I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law.**
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+**I have taken <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/topics/22">fair use</a> into consideration.**
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+**I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.**
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+**I have read and understand GitHub's <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice/">Guide to Submitting a DMCA Takedown Notice</a>.**
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+**So that we can get back to you, please provide either your telephone number or physical address.**
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+[private], [private]
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+German Autolabs GmbH
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+[private]
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+[private]
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+[private]
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+**Please type your full legal name below to sign this request.**
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+[private]