My question is:
- how to claim copyright in a plugin
java
?,
I don't have much experience with this, but a buyer leaked my plugin on some pages and supposedly now I have to file a DMCA claim.
My question is:
java
?,I don't have much experience with this, but a buyer leaked my plugin on some pages and supposedly now I have to file a DMCA claim.
According to the DMCA page you should have a certificate or badge, although depending on the type of copyright you have added to your plugin I guess you can always do something.
There he explains the steps to follow, I'm sorry if the translation is not entirely correct .
Reports copyright infringement
Please follow these instructions when reporting stolen content:
Content Name
If you know the owner, creator, publisher or distributor of the content.
Location of the stolen content ( please include the specific offending links, not the general url :
www.dmca.com
this is not appropriate, it is better to be specific in the URL, for example:Certificate of Protection DMCA link or badge Protection DMCA.com link found on the website owners of the site. This will help us identify the site owner's account.
Useful links ( in English ):
Avoid being hacked:
First of all, I want to say that I am a supporter of Free and Open Source, but licenses are essential, and I'm not just talking about paid licenses, since I'm not very good at those, but whatever you do (put on...), Seriously, license it. Neither that you put one
BeerWare
or oneGNU GPL
...but
always copyright/license your code
With copyright / license you will have your code protected in the event that something happens, now, my recommendation, apart from this, is that you put a kind of
AUTH_KEY
to your plugin, to avoid piracy.You just need a server / webservice / microservice or something you can put online to perform authentication similar to what wordpress theme developers do or the google maps API.
Any page that uses your code will need to make a small request to your server to check (at a minimum):
That request will come from the domain where your plugin is being used and will be of the style:
If the license exists , corresponds and is in force , the request returns an ok, (normally it is a cookie to not make queries every second, but even if it is
OK
it will be fine).Otherwise, you are denied access and thus the operation of the plugin.