[WikiEN-l] NPG copyright irony

[Scott MacDonald]

I discovered the NPG's infringement after the article [[John Michael
Wright]] was slated for TFA (due in an hour or two). As I say, I wrote 95%
of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Errors_in_the_summar
y_of_today.27s_or_tomorrow.27s_featured_article

and 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Michael_Wright#CopyVio.3F


The joke is now on me as people actually want to pull the TFA because of a
perception that I violated the NPG's copyright. To say I'm pissed off it to
put it mildly. 

Scott

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Scott MacDonald
Sent: 20 March 2011 20:54
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPG copyright irony

I guess I was mainly enjoying the irony that people so prickly about their
own asserted copyrights can be so slapdash with material that is someone
else's copyright. They threw bricks at Derrick, now it appears they are
inhabiting a glass-house.

I doubt I'm much motivated to do anything about it beyond chuckle with a
little righteous indignation, but if someone else wants either to contact
them and ask them to acknowledge Wikipedia and the correct license, or to
use the whole thing to throw a publicity brick back at them, they are very
welcome. I will chuckle more.

Any way you look at it, they have (probably carelessly) asserted copyright
over material that they certainly do not have copyright over, and (probably
inadvertently) violated my rights and those of Wikipedia. Given the
circumstances, that's somewhat funny.

Scott


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