On what basis to write a statement in case of theft of the repository?

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AJ2016-07-30 20:19:58

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AJ, 2016-07-30 20:19:58

Good afternoon. I will briefly describe an unpleasant story that happened to me the other day. After 2 years of development, the team breaks up. Everyone takes his own and disperse. After some time, I receive a push that the project has been deployed (a built-in notification system). I understand that the web part (my part) has been deployed somewhere and is being actively explored (read n **** t). The project was on bitbucket. All commits from start to finish are mine.
Accordingly, the question is: how to build an evidence base having (so far) in the arsenal only a repository with a history of development and the knowledge that the project was deployed somewhere?

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iBird Rose, 2016-07-31
@iiiBird

start-ups never cease to amaze... you won't prove anything. humble yourself. if it is a matter of principle and you are not too lazy to lay out for all proceedings and courts from 100k+, then go ahead. maybe it will come out, but I advise you to score. next time it will be a lesson to draw up everything in writing and fix it with notarized documents and contracts.

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Alexander, 2016-07-31
@thecoding

Firstly, if the code is command, then each developer has the right to copyright.
Secondly, if the MIT license has the full right to modify, modify, etc.
Thirdly, if the NDA is not signed, then there is no point in principle.

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OnYourLips, 2016-07-30
@OnYourLips

There is no basis, at least according to the laws of Russia there is no corpus delicti.
But you can sue the violator, but you will have to not only find him yourself, but also prove the amount of damage that he caused you with his illegal actions (you also need to prove this).

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index0h, 2016-07-31
@index0h

I understand that the web part (my part) has been deployed somewhere and is being actively explored (read n **** t).

Did you have exclusive access to the repository? In the sense that it was private and the rest of the participants did not know about it?
The history of commits does not matter, given that the author of the commits can be changed, and then pushed with force.
You can look in the direction of illegal access, however, if you provided access AND didn’t sign the NDA, this is Filkin’s letter and you can’t prove anything.

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Vladimir Chernyshev, 2016-08-04
@VolCh

Evidence base for what? Uses? What for?

In the event that the exclusive right to the result of intellectual activity or to a means of individualization belongs to several persons jointly, each of the right holders may use such result or such means at its own discretion, unless otherwise provided by this Code or an agreement between the right holders.

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Sanes, 2016-07-30
@Sanes

Illegal Access

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SaturnTeam, 2016-07-31
@SaturnTeam

Copyright is yours. If the license was not indicated, and then how you can use the files - the truth is on your side. The problem is in proving 1) that this code really works somewhere 2) and for a specific person.
But you go 100% along the road of copyright protection.