: Illegal iphone app for website I have a web site and someone had made an iphone app for my site without my permission and selling it. He is using my API without getting permission. How

@Correia994

An iPhone is nothing else than a smaller computer, thus a web browser like any other. It shouldn't make any difference whether he is rendering your data via native API or webkit. It might be also possible to charge for his "browser" regardless what data he is rendering with it.

I am not lawyer but I guess that makes sense. Sure, the copyright issue remains but it should be treated separately from the fact its an iPhone app.

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@Si4351233

btw: did you try to contact the app creator before Apple? may he likes to work something out with you like a 50/50 split of app revenue.
or just tell him he should remove the app from the market otherwise he get sued ...

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@Si4351233

Can't you just block the app? Like "if API gets requested by BAD-APP >redirect to NOT ALLOWED"

Don't allow the iPhone usage of your site.

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@Cody1181609

Here's an Apple forum thread pointing the claimant at the iTunes support contact area.

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