This has nothing to do with Copyright, which isn't applicable at all. And it's not "illegal" to not remove something with a name conflict on the Internet. Trademark law is a civil matter, and there are a lot of complexities to what extent a company is protected. I think NPM should have waited for a letter from a lawyer and given the author a chance to legally respond. The whole "don't want to get lawyers involved ha ha! so please take away someone else's work" shouldn't really fly. It probably would have ended with the same result, but at least there would be a proper process around it.
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This has nothing to do with Copyright, which isn't applicable at all. And it's not "illegal" to not remove something with a name conflict on the Internet. Trademark law is a civil matter, and there are a lot of complexities to what extent a company is protected. I think NPM should have waited for a letter from a lawyer and given the author a chance to legally respond. The whole "don't want to get lawyers involved ha ha! so please take away someone else's work" shouldn't really fly. It probably would have ended with the same result, but at least there would be a proper process around it.