> What do you think I could do? Do you think I should look for a lawyer to deal with it outside the digital world?

Use a trademark.

nixrobot 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How will that help? Trademarks do not protect code - only logos, names, brands. And brands are easy to remove.

Something else is needed. If the code is basically open, then there is no technical protection. Remove tens of those repos - hundreds might appear.

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IvanK_net 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow, that might actually work, thanks!

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fakedang 10 hours ago | parent [-]

First of all, thanks Ivan! Happy user of Photopea.

Second, the trademark will help you against the masqueraders, those copying your tool and the Photopea brandmark. That will help with customers complaining about some other modified product. It will not help in case you find someone copying your codebase and putting it out in the open under a different name. For that, you'll need a copyright.

Doing both of these might be expensive but gives you complete legal standing. Companies will have no choice but to take down the copies.

	▲	LoganDark 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It will allow them to force modified forks to stop using the Photopea name in a way that confuses users and results in delusional support requests.