After Craig Wright Claims Copyright Infringement, Bitcoin Websites Asked to Remove White Paper

Copyright Infringement Claims Of Bitcoin Whitepaper. 

As it was found cryptocurrency community is currently discussing the recent action that was taken by Craig Wright’s lawyers just against web portals that now host the original Bitcoin white paper just during the last few days. Requesting the removal of the paper due to alleged copyright infringement, recently letters were sent to a number of websites. 

Concerning the locked white paper removal conversation on Github, at some point during the day, the owner of the web portal bitcoin.org Cobra deleted his tweet quoted below. For being too heated and limited conversation to collaborators, the conversation was locked. 

Bitcoin White Paper Copyright Allegations

Telling them to remove the Bitcoin white paper from their site, a number of web portals like bitcoin.org have been sent notices from Craig Wright’s legal team as the digital currency space is dealing with controversy once again. Wright has never proven this to the greater community as Wright has claimed for years now that he is bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. 

Alleging that a group of people took control of the site and altered information as furthermore Wright also claims to be the rightful owner of the bitcoin.org domain. Now it is that refusing to comply are the current owners of bitcoin.org who deny Wright’s claims and therefore stress Wright’s allegations are without merit. 

The bitcoin.org statement about the incident details the following that by lawyers representing Craig Steven Wright, yesterday both bitcoin.org and bitcoincore.org received allegations of copyright infringement of the Bitcoin whitepaper. bitcoin.org’s operators further insisted that they claim Craig owns the copyright to the paper, the Bitcoin name, and ownership of bitcoin.org in this letter. As he now says he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the only pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin and therefore the original owner of bitcoin.org which was what they claim. Asked to take down the whitepaper were both bitcoin.org and bitcoincore.org. Refusing to do so they believe these claims are without merit. 

Despite proof, the whitepaper is MIT licensed, and the thread has almost no trolling, an attempt is to add the bitcoin whitepaper back to the Bitcoin Core Github was locked. 

Cøbra (@CobraBitcoin) January 21, 2021, tweeted:

Total capitulation and total fear, as dead as a project IMO are Bitcoin Core. 

Been tweeting about the recent claims made by Wright’s lawyers was the owner of the website bitcoin.org who goes by the pseudonym Cobra. Which also received a notice from lawyers, the white paper doesn’t necessarily need to be hosted here in reference to the website bitcoincore.org as Bitcoin Core’s lead maintainer Wladimir Van Der Laan said on Github. Van Der Laan wrote unless anyone can point to an explicit place where Satoshi licensed it under a free license legally it is safer to then remove it from that bitcoin-core.org sit

Tweeting about the legal letters, Cobra didn’t seem to appreciate Van Der Laan’s decision. In response to Van Der Laan’s tweet about the issue, Cobra wrote that at the request of CSW, you let one legal letter force you into modifying Bitcoin Core’s website and remove the whitepaper. Further noted was Cobra’s scathing critique as there is no sympathy, whereas making it more likely for his attack on bitcoin.org to succeed, you gave precedent and lent legitimacy to his claims. 

Saying the Paper Is Open Source and Public Domain, Crypto Proponents Scoff at Wright’s Attempts 

Crypto supporters have been discussing the alleged white paper copyright claims with great fervour as the issues have become a hot topic on social media. Announcing hosting the white paper on their websites are many bitcoin proponents. The Bitcoin white paper is open source and in the public domain as bitcoin supporter, Bruce Fenton told his 55,000 Twitter followers. 

Another person then insisted that was licensed under MIT, the white paper was in the original repo. Clutching at straws here is CSW. Exclaiming that it also refuses to take down the websites’ hosted white paper as well was the Billfodl Twitter account. 

Billfodl’s Twitter account said, just like Cobra Bitcoin, they also refuse to take down their white paper. Not scaring us are CSW and Calvin’s goons. Since Cobra tweeted about the copyright infringement situation as the bitcoin.org donation address for the organisation’s legal defence has started to receive a number of BTC donations. 

‘Does Not Investigate The Truth Of Any Statement Made’ Was U.S. Copyright Office

Finally, it is found other individuals who have moreover claimed the copyright ownership just over the bitcoin white paper. 

As he simply claimed to be the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto and the author of the paper’s text, Wei Liu a former executive at the bitcoin mining operation F2pool has registered a copyright for those bitcoin white papers coming to be with extreme ease. Saying the government entity does not investigate the truth of any statement named a statement from the US copyright office in regard to Wright’s copyright claim in 2019 was.