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Something feels off about this whole post, but can't put my finger on it. For example, appears the company makes money selling their code to online newspapers,
by nxzero 10y ago
Something feels off about this whole post, but can't put my finger on it.
For example, appears the company makes money selling their code to online newspapers, but when a major media company uses their code the response is to tell them to stop doing it.
I would be curious to see the take down notice that was sent literally said.
- KnightHawk3 10y agoBecause they didn't pay for it?
- vertex-four 10y agoAl Jazeera are essentially pirating - the company makes money selling their code to online newspapers, not giving it away.
- nxzero 10y agoRight, that's obvious, just like it's obvious you'd call them up and sell them on paying you to use it, not tell them to stop via so legal notice that might not even legally apply to them.
- sooheon 10y agoSo what's your move when they simply ignore your call and continue to use your work? After all, they got it for free, no one else seems to care, why should one call from you convince them to pay after the fact?
- nxzero 10y agoAJ is a professional company. If you read the other comments, which were posted after my comment, it's clear the developer made an agreement a freelance journalist, not AJ; which isn't even mentioned by the developer in the blog even though they're 100% aware of it. Given near the journalists or the developer have committed publicly to the terms of the agreement between them, I don't see the point in speculating what their agreement was; I do know on GitHub that the developer use the MIT license for some other code, which would have allowed the journalist to reuse the code where ever they wanted. As for what to do, volumes of books are published on the topic. If the content was hosted in the US, the next step would be contact the ISP that's hosting the content.