> It's unclear what legal basis Mazda has to order a DMCA takedown
There's probably none. They're probably just leveraging the high costs of a legal defense to bully individuals into submission. Corporations have armies of lawyers and can afford to spend years fighting in court, this guy can't. The threat of lawsuits is equivalent to a threat to set his money on fire.
Check out their "justifications":
> The automaker argued that Rothweiler's work contained code that violated its copyrights; used its "proprietary API information" to create more code
Seriously doubt that. It's not like they gave this guy access to their source code or internal documents.
> and that the integrations provided functionality identical to what currently exists in Mazda's own mobile apps
There's probably none. They're probably just leveraging the high costs of a legal defense to bully individuals into submission. Corporations have armies of lawyers and can afford to spend years fighting in court, this guy can't. The threat of lawsuits is equivalent to a threat to set his money on fire.
Check out their "justifications":
> The automaker argued that Rothweiler's work contained code that violated its copyrights; used its "proprietary API information" to create more code
Seriously doubt that. It's not like they gave this guy access to their source code or internal documents.
> and that the integrations provided functionality identical to what currently exists in Mazda's own mobile apps
Not protected by copyright.