On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:18:30 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Soufron
<jbsoufron(a)free.fr> wrote:
When the claim is that the original article was
violating some
copyright, then the complete derivative work should be deleted. But...
But "taking some inspiration from" is not violating a copyright. It is
perfectly admissible to get inspiration from some writings, use it to
write an original article. There would be no copyright violation in the
first place. That's a first point.
Right.
But when the writing of the original article would be
far too similar
with some other text and that theo riginal copyright violation would be
impossible to deny, a second point could be to re-write the article. To
put it simply : there is no need to delete the article, but it is
necessary to write it once again, only taking inspiration from the
original text, and then to add the modifications to follow. That's a
good way to "clean" the copyright on this article. Just writing it from
scractch once more. It can be long under some circumnstances, but it
will never be that difficult.
Well, you won't find my help there. Writing an article for Wikipedia
is work, and I don't like to hear "Your work might just be considered
a copyright violation, could you please do it all again? Oh, and you
may not derive it from your previous part of course."
And then, those modifications... Either they ARE copyright violations
and then we're NOT allowed to add them, or they ARE NOT copyright
violations, and then there is no reason to remove them first.
If this ever gets to be official policy, remind me to never add more
than one sentence to an existing page. I just don't want to run the
risk of losing my work to something stupid like this.
Then you have two lines of defense : first, to claim
that there were no
copyright violation in the first place; then to rewrite the article by
making it clear that it is now only taking inspiration from the
original text and nothing else.
Questions ?
Yes. What if I get my inspiration from something else than the
original text or the copyright violation. Is that allowed? And what if
I want to use my own text (to which I apparently do not have the
copyright) to make the new text, how are you going to stop me?
Andre Engels