Does anything in the Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA (4.0 or 3.0) allow the person you've licensed your content with to remove attribution because you're charged with a crime?
The specific case has no conviction yet.
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The attribution is not a right of the grantor, nor a freestanding obligation on the grantee. Instead, it is a conditional obligation placed on the grantee.
One need not provide attribution. But if one does not, then one loses the associated conditional privileges and is at risk of a suit if one continues unpermitted use (e.g. for copyright infringement). It is open to persons / corporations to accept such risk. It is also open for them to stop sharing.
Under the CC licence, none of the above changes upon the grantor being charged with a crime.
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