My concern is not whether you are care about me, it is with my work which was posted and used by many projects in this community. If I have to I will seek legal action regarding this issue.
@Mark @Don Daniello @kornholi To avoid please fulfill my request.
This has gone to far.
Let me explain Copyright to you.
Yes, under Section 2.3.2 of the copyright law in the USA (which I know you happen to reside in)
"Any and all of the copyright owner's exclusive rights may be transferred, but the transfer of exclusive rights is not valid unless that transfer is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights being transferred."
In OtLands agreements,
"You are granting us with a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with the Service. You retain copyright over the Content."
However, even though you yourself retain copyright over said works under section 2.2.2 of the copyright law in the USA (which again, you reside under)
"A fair use of a copyrighted work may include the practice of any of the exclusive rights provided by copyright, for example, reproduction for purposes such as criticism comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research."
As such, and under your own signed documentation, which is
mandatory in order to post on this site, you have given them permission to publish the content.
However, even if you had not signed the documentation under the fair use law 2.2.2, there is no such obligation to have the content removed as your content can and does fall under "criticism comment" & "research". One could argue it falls under "teaching" as well, as some of your copyrighted works were posted in the tutorials section of OtLand.
OtLand itself is not required to remove any such content due to these rules and regulations set forth in the copyright act.
However, they do retain the right to remove the content if they see so fit to do so.
On another side, if you can prove that work you have provided has been used by OtLand itself in a commercial nature, then you might be on to something.
Again, 2.2.2,
"Purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a
commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes"
However, since every distribution of TFS notes that the software is open-source, meaning that the information contain therein has been submitted freely for use in such software, the only likely action you could possibly hold up in court is against whomever submitted your work to be used in the open-source project.
Hopefully this information is helpful to
all parties.
I doubt this needs to be noted, but am I not a lawyer, and as such do not know the full extent of the law, but I feel that the information gathered above is enough to decide any disagreement between the mutual parties without the need of a court.