Steve Bennett wrote:
On 1/20/07, Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au wrote:
http://www.justrec.com/wilderness.html
This is just one of several articles on this site that appears to be a direct copy of the WP article. Scouting is another. They claim copyright on the page and do not mention WP. Is this legit?
When this came up a few months ago, we concluded that it was not illegal to falsely claim copyright. It doesn't make their claim valid, but it's certainly easier for many sites to simply claim copyright over everything appearing on their site than to work out which part of that claim would actually be valid.
Falsely claiming copyrright is illegal, but prosecutions are not practical.
Claiming copyright over an entire web page is not a false claim. It really means "copyright to whatever extent allowable"
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