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Subject: DMCA

We are Anlatan LLC, the developers of https://novelai.net/ we are the original owner of the copyright that has been identified from this repository and the identified forks listed. Anlatan LLC formed in June of 2021 and has been in active business ever since. Our trade is distinct and uniquely identifiable.

We have received information that Huggingface is hosting one of our proprietary models for public access which provides means to unlawfully access our proprietary software. Anlatan LLC has the exclusive right to control distribution of means to access NovelAI and its related products.

The purpose we have identified of these repositories is to aid and abet software piracy of our business software. This is done by distributing our model on this repository converted to hugginface transformers. The identified infringing repository can be found here.

https://huggingface.co/jgradus/krake/tree/main

We have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law.

We have taken fair use into consideration.

We swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that we are the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

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