Developer Draws Legal Threat For Exposing Indian Telco's Net Neutrality Violation

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 9, 2015 @01:36AM from the pressure-from-abroad dept.

knightsirius writes: Indian broadband and cellular operator Airtel was discovered to be injecting third-party JavaScript files into web pages delivered over their wireless networks. A developer was viewing the source of his own blog and noticed the additional script when viewed on a Airtel connection. He traced the file back to Flash Networks, an Israel-based company, which specializes in "network monetization" and posted the source on GitHub. Since then, he has received a cease-and-desist from Flash Networks and the code on GitHub has been removed following a DMCA takedown notice.

Readers may remember Airtel from its previous dubious record with network neutrality.

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Re:Of course, it's likely copyrighted. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-06-09 01:55 · Score: 2, Informative

*Whoosh* to all who modded this down.
Re:Of course, it's likely copyrighted. by gnasher719 · 2015-06-09 05:32 · Score: 3, Informative

They injected code into his blog. So they made a derivative work of his, the code belongs to him.
It doesn't. Creating a derivative work may be copyright infringement, but it doesn't give the owner of the original code any rights to the derivative work.