[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

Wed Nov 13 23:22:16 UTC 2013

> Unquestionably, there are also many instances where the systems fails and
> where lots of copyrighted material gets uploaded. Back in 2005, we had a
> case similar to the one you described in German Wikipedia, where various
> IPs copied content from old books. It is a big mess to clean up, but it can
> be done. And luckily the cases of massive copyvios are quite rare.
>
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For further information see
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archiv/DDR-URV/Presseinfo (German).

Cheers
Martin