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2015-07-22-Dedual-Enterprises.md

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+Greetings,
+
+My name is [private]. It grieves me
+to reach out in this manner, but I believe that code of which I am the
+author of has been illegally forked and commandeered. I have read and
+understand Github's Guide to Filing a DCMA Notice, and having read and
+understood the guidelines, I have proceeded to file this claim.
+
+The code is question resides at
+[private]. It is a private
+Github repository containing the code written for a project I was
+subcontracted to perform for the Sneakers Agency. The main repo for the
+original code resides at
+[private], also a
+private repository. As you can see, the offending repo (Barbarian's
+[private] repo) was duplicated as of April 27th, 2015. Up until then,
+and substantially afterward, I was the only author on the repo, as I was
+the only individual who wrote and incorporated the software. While there
+are open source components involved in this project (Tesseract OCR, ZBar,
+and others), there is enough proprietary code written to claim both
+ownership and authorship over the project. Among those, specifically, are
+the algorithms used in [private], including but not limited to
+those pertaining to what has been termed as "Lexical processing" (including
+functions "postProcessing", "mostLikelyComputedFromStack", and others) and
+the overall integration of the project (the fact that it utilizes video
+rather than static images, the integration of multiple scanning
+technologies, etc), as well as some of the demo projects written to
+showcase how the framework was to be used. Dedual Enterprises also wrote
+the Android components as well, as they utilized the same logic, only more
+specifically tailored for Android.
+
+The offending repository was duplicated by one [private] (github
+username dannichols) of The Barbarian Group. He can be reached at
+[private]
+
+[private] had hired The Sneakers Group to create this code. However, as
+of this day, they have not met the terms of their agreement with The
+Sneakers Agency. Barbarian has also refused to pay for services rendered,
+and have taken the next step by appropriating an older version of the
+repository. To what purpose? Only they can speak to that.
+
+I currently do not have, nor have ever had, a contract with either
+Barbarian or Sneakers Agency (the current repository owners), where I
+assign my authorship or copyright of what we've termed as the OCR code
+(herein describing the contents of either repository) to anyone else or any
+other entity. Dedual Enterprises is the owner and copyright holder of this
+code. To remedy this infringement, we would need for the offending
+repository to be deleted, any local codebases that have cloned or used the
+offending repository (or any based off of the copyrighted code) to be
+deleted, as well as proof, through the supervision of one of our
+representatives and under perjury under the law, that all traces of the
+offending code have been deleted from [private's] computers, Barbarian's
+computers, and any computers [private] or his agents may have had access
+to in order to duplicate said repository. The fact that they have been able
+to do this once implies they are capable of doing this many times over.
+
+It is a sad day when developers work their best and still have to bear
+witness to these tactics. With a pain in my heart for what has happened
+under the current circumstances, *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. Further, **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 for your attention in this matter. *
+
+*Sincerely, *
+
+[private]