diff --git a/2016-04-07-NYU.md b/2016-04-07-NYU.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9e98e8a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/2016-04-07-NYU.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Hello, + +My name is [private] GitHub user is blangel and I am a professor at +NYU teaching course CS9053. I use GitHub to help teach my class. I use +private repositories to share homework and code with students and I +leverage pull requests to code review the students' submissions. This +material, however, is copyrighted by myself and NYU and I make explicit to +students that this material should not be copied into other repositories +and publicly posted online. This is to help avoid academic dishonesty in +cheating (copying past homework submissions). + +GitHub repository below violates this copyright. + +https://github.com/kira1009/CS9053-Java + +It is in fact a copy of another student's work (who has not agreed to this +posting, the user, stevenlordiam, has already reached out complaining to +GitHub and since removed his original repository). + +The user in question, kira1009, does not have a public email associated +with his account. I have attempted to contact him (per GitHub guidelines) +by opening the following pull request asking him to take down the material: + +*https://github.com/kira1009/CS9053-Java/pull/1* + +He has not responded and so I am issuing a DMCA Complaint to take down the +repository. + +I have read and understand GitHub's Guide to Filing a DMCA Notice. + +I have verified that the repository is a whole copy of copyrighted material +and it should completely be removed. + +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. + +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. + +My contact information is below, including a signature: + +[private] + +Thank you, +[private]