Wrestlers against “piracy” RIAA and BPI violated the copyright of the creators of popular jQuery scripts
Yes, more than once it happened that the most violent opponents of any violations, in fact, turned out to be not so “clean” before the law. It happens, and often, with fighters against corruption (in any country), and now with those who are fighting for life and death with copyright infringers, while violating someone's rights. Closer to the point: RIAA and BPI have removed the copyrights of the creators of the scripts used on the websites of these organizations. In this case, of course, the rights of the authors of these scripts were violated.
So, the sites of these organizations operate using third-party jQuery scripts distributed under the MIT license . This license provides for the permission to use the software in any form, by any organizations and persons, under one single condition: to preserve the copyright of the script. Both the RIAA and BPI neglected this license, removing the copyright.
In the case of BPI, this is a jQuery.tmpl.min.js script.
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This is how the script code with copyrights should look like:
And here he is on the organization’s website:
As for the RIAA, this organization acted in a similar way with the image slider script, jquery.orbit.min.js. The creator of the script is the company ZURB , whose copyright music group RIAA safely removed.
This is what a copyright script should look like:
And this is how it looked so far on the organization’s website:
After the inquiry of journalists, with a request to comment on the situation, representatives of the RIAA promised to deal with the situation. After some time, copyright was added .
Representatives of the BPI did not respond, but it seems that the copyright has already been restored .
It is clear that this is not a great violation, it goes without saying that the leaders of both groups have never heard of any such jQuery scripts. But, as they say, ignorance of the law does not exempt from responsibility, to which the same organizations often appeal.
Via torrentfreak
So, the sites of these organizations operate using third-party jQuery scripts distributed under the MIT license . This license provides for the permission to use the software in any form, by any organizations and persons, under one single condition: to preserve the copyright of the script. Both the RIAA and BPI neglected this license, removing the copyright.
In the case of BPI, this is a jQuery.tmpl.min.js script.
')
This is how the script code with copyrights should look like:
And here he is on the organization’s website:
As for the RIAA, this organization acted in a similar way with the image slider script, jquery.orbit.min.js. The creator of the script is the company ZURB , whose copyright music group RIAA safely removed.
This is what a copyright script should look like:
And this is how it looked so far on the organization’s website:
After the inquiry of journalists, with a request to comment on the situation, representatives of the RIAA promised to deal with the situation. After some time, copyright was added .
Representatives of the BPI did not respond, but it seems that the copyright has already been restored .
It is clear that this is not a great violation, it goes without saying that the leaders of both groups have never heard of any such jQuery scripts. But, as they say, ignorance of the law does not exempt from responsibility, to which the same organizations often appeal.
Via torrentfreak
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/200710/
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