Can you remove plugin that violates copyright?

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  stesvis · Member · Aug 30, 2011 at 3:34 pm

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  Hello,
  i hope you can help with this.

  I am a plugin developer and i have some plugins on wordpress.org (my nickname is stesvis).
  I run a website where i develop plugins and sell them.
  Someone took one of my plugins, replaced my name with their name, and uploaded it on wordpress.org.

  The plugin that i am talking about is this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eventcalendar/

  Where my original plugin is this: http://wordpress.phpanswer.com/event-calendar/

  I am feeling very disturbed by this person and my copyright has been 100% violated.
  I tried to contact this person with no luck.

  Please have that plugin removed.

  Thanks,
  Cristian
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  evarlese · Member · Aug 30, 2011 at 5:27 pm

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  Hi Christian,

  You’ve reached support for the free sites hosted at WordPress.com.

  If you’re having problems with a site not hosted with WordPress.com, we may not be able to help. To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  You can find support for self-hosted/installed versions of WordPress here:
  http://wordpress.org/support/
  http://codex.wordpress.org/

  Due to the type of problem that you’re encountering, it may be out of our scope to provide you with the next steps to take. If you need legal assistance regarding a copyright violation, I suggest that you contact an organization that can provide you with the appropriate legal advice.