GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

Kevin Wayne is one of the authors of Algorithms 4th ed. by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne and he has a github repository called "algs4". Pearson sent github a DMCA notice for this repository and another. I'm not sure exactly what content he hosted in "algs4".

Re: GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

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Post by mrighele » Sat, May 01, 2021, 12:01 PM UTC

leeuw01 wrote: post #2

Context?

The DMCA notice linked on the page [1] gives a few more details.

We have received information that the domain listed above, which appears to be on servers under your control, is offering unlicensed copies of, or is engaged in other unauthorized activities relating to, copyrighted works published by Pearson Education, Inc.

    Copyright work(s):

Deep Learning with R 9781617295546 Algorithms 9780321573513

Copyright owner(s) or exclusive licensee:

Pearson Education, Inc.

    Copyright infringing material or activity found at the following location(s):

https://github.com/jjallaire/deep-learning-with-r-notebooks https://github.com/kevin-wayne/algs4

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/04/2021-04-2...

Re: GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

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Post by phoe-krk » Sat, May 01, 2021, 12:02 PM UTC

mellosouls wrote: post #4

The notice is here: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/04/2021-04-2... Kevin Wayne (repo owner presumably) is listed as co-author on the book that is published by Pearson, who have issued the notice. https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Sedgewic...

    Yours sincerely,
    [private]
    Internet Investigator
    On behalf of:
    Pearson Education, Inc.

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Seems like another glorious victory of the overzealous online copyright strikers. Nothing out of the ordinary, will likely get sorted out in a day or two.

Re: GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

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Post by kevinventullo » Sat, May 01, 2021, 12:09 PM UTC

I give a lot of credit to Sedgewick’s course for helping me break into the software industry, having come from an adjacent field in academia. I hope they can get the repo back up.

Re: GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

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Post by hvdijk » Sat, May 01, 2021, 12:40 PM UTC

marktucker wrote: post #5

leeuw01 wrote: post #2

Context?

Kevin Wayne is one of the authors of Algorithms 4th ed. by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne and he has a github repository called "algs4". Pearson sent github a DMCA notice for this repository and another. I'm not sure exactly what content he hosted in "algs4".

http://web.archive.org/web/20201016112929if_/https://github....:

> This public repository contains the Java source code for the algorithms and clients in the textbook Algorithms, 4th Edition by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne. This is the official version—it is actively maintained and updated by the authors. [...]

Re: GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

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Post by caymanjim » Sat, May 01, 2021, 12:51 PM UTC

This isn't worth getting your feathers ruffled over. Some algorithm or barely-paid human automaton flagged it, someone higher up will notice it, it'll be added to an exception list, problem solved. It's not ideal, but it's not malicious or nefarious or even worth talking about every time something like this happens. It's a simple mistake that has a simple solution.