Nasibu,
I was curt and rather blunt; however, there are a very large number of
websites that will freely carry a press release or other promotional
article you wish to distribute. That is not Wikinews.
I placed a welcoming template on your user talk page very shortly after
you signed up for an account. Please read this. In particular, the
following two links:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/WN:ARTICLE
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/WN:NPOV
As you have done your best to confirm you are the copyright holder on
what you would have liked published, one of the other Wikinews regular
contributors has reviewed it. It has failed this review; again, I refer
you to the above two links.
As a last point which particularly annoys me; the website is Wikinews,
the "n" in the middle is not capitalised.
Please continue any discussion of this issue on the wiki.
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:36 +0100, Nasibu Mwanukuzi wrote:
Dear Brian McNeil,
I submitted an article today “Ras Nas release a new music and poetry
CD - Double Focus” at WikiNews but to my dismay, the story was removed
with a claim that I have infringed copyright laws. What I do not
understand is, I am the owner of Kongoi Productions (where the story
originated) and thus I do not need to ask for any permission to reuse
the story. In addition, I am also the artist of whose work is being
referred! I really do not see how I could infringe copyright laws
here.
I hope this mail will help settle the matter and that the article in
question gets reprinted for the good of both parties concerned.
Obs! I have also tried to use the talk page though I am not sure
whether I have done it right. I have also sent this mail to the
moderator using my Kongoi Production's admin e-mail.
Best regards,
Nasibu Mwanukuzi aka Ras Nas
CEO
Kongoi Productions
E-mail: admin(a)kongoi.com
www.kongoi.com
+47 41 62 89 37
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