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(Statements required by Github DMCA Takedown Policy are provided in the end of this letter)
Dear Sir/Madam,
We would like to report a major copyright infringement incident on Github servers.
We run an online magazine at sputnikipogrom.com and offer a significant share of our articles to paid subscribers only. Paid materials are filed under tag 'premium' and stored at sputnikipogrom.com/tag/premiumrussian. We only allow personal use of our paid content and strictly prohibit its open distribution.
In early July 2016, a person launched a publicly accessible page on vk.com social network where they unlawfully, without prior pronounced consent distribute our paid and copyrighted materials as PDF-files to general public.
The address of the page in question is as following: vk.com/premiumrussian.
All the files distributed on the page are uploaded to and stored at Github servers by user under an alias of 'prosvirnin' within public domain.
Since such user's activities violate our copyright and cause our enterprise significant financial losses, in accordance with Github ToS and Github DMCA Takedown Policy,
- We demand immediate deletion of 868 PDF-files and their 868 'mobile' versions with our copyrighted content alongside 853 copies of our visual artworks unlawfully uploaded to and currently publicly stored at Github servers.
User's account in question: https://github.com/prosvirnin
Public repository with our paid content: https://github.com/prosvirnin/sputnik2
PDFs with our paid articles: https://github.com/prosvirnin/sputnik2/tree/master/pdf/standard
'Mobile' version of the PDFs with our paid content: https://github.com/prosvirnin/sputnik2/tree/master/pdf/mobile
Folder with copies of our copyrighted artworks: https://github.com/prosvirnin/sputnik2/tree/master/img
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Given the magnitude of the breach, we urge you to immediately fully block 'prosvirnin' account.
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We request you to provide us with the user’s email address they used for registration on your service.
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the repository in question has been recreated by the user following DMCA takedown of the original one (please refer to https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2016-08-15-sputnikipogrom.md) on August 15, 2016.
We would appreciate you acting expeditiously to resolve the issue.
A page stored on sputnikipogrom.com website to confirm that this claim originates from a lawful owner of the content in question:
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Please do not hesitate to contact us at [private] should any additional questions arise.
By submitting this claim, I hereby confirm that
I have read and understand GitHub's Guide to Filing a DMCA Notice.
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.
By submitting this claim,
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.
Thank you.
With regards,
On behalf of sputnikipogrom.com website,
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SIGNED
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AUGUST 16, 2016.
Contact details
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