[OutOfHere]

I am not supporting the theft, but it will make better sense when you realize that copyright holds little value in the real world outside of the court system. Next time, keep your repo private until you're ready to release everything together.

[cwbriscoe]

I am sure he didn't need your "wise" advice to keep his repo private in the future.

[OutOfHere]

He is grossly misrepresenting Arxiv. It is not an appropriate place for a copyright fight.

[DaSHacka]

That's not their call to make. They have no right to host GP's intellectual property and refuse to take it down after being contacted by the rightful owner.

[OutOfHere]

You're not paying any at all. Arxiv did not refuse to take it down. Arxiv did take it down even though they had no obligation to do so. Also, anyone can claim anything online, and it's the timing of papers that ultimately matters.

[rebanevapustus]

They did refuse to take it down.

You have no idea how many emails were exchanged, attempts at explaining them what a commit log is, what verified commits are...to just refuse to do anything until Stanford weighed in.

It is incredibly condescending to say "arXiv is not a place for a copyright strike". as if I decided to start one.

If somebody gets robbed in front of a place of worship/whatever, would you scold the victim by saying that's not the place to get robbed?

Incredible.

[nextaccountic]

Copyright, as in the right to prevent other people from making copies, indeed is meaningless unless you have lawyers

But plagiarism is a serious academic misconduct, that gets papers retracted, people fired from academic positions, PhDs rescinded, etc. It's not at all a copyright issue and would remain a gross misconduct even if copyright were abolished today