Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
At 06:54 PM 6/18/03 -0700, Menchi Zh-en wrote:
Some people consistently move passages (usually the entire article) of copyright violations to Talk pages. Talks may not necessarily be considered Wikipedia proper. But they are still integral part of Wikipedia operations nevertheless.
This such behaviour acceptable?
Yes, because it's intended as temporary. If the passage turns out not to be a copyright violation (in some of these, the person whose page it was found on is the person who put it on Wikipedia, and wrote it, so they can release it to us under the GFDL), it can be restored. If it's confirmed as a violation, it should be deleted from the talk page as well.
To some extent, I would expect that these violations would be covered by fair use when they have been moved to the talk page or history to highlight the fact that there was a copyright violation. The reason for being there has changed, and that is one of the factors considered when evaluating fair use. There might be a problem if it's a very long text, but then the person posting is violating another WP rule about WP not being a Library for published texts.
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