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Discussion on: How a developer broke the internet by un-publishing his package containing 11 lines of code

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Srdjan Mitrovic

This has nothing to do with copyright law. In your case your code is copyrighted so someone who is not the owner put it on pypy. But in kik case there was no copyright law broken. The issue was a trademark and he didn't lose a lawsuit but npm sided with the company which was wrong. It was wrong because you allowed to use the same name for non-related thing. For example in Germany if you say kik to anyone, no one would think about chat program from kik.com but they would think about kik.de (so 2 different companies use exactly the same name).