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."
Yes but every modifications added to the copyvio article is a copyright infringing derivative work. There is nothing else to do when you the original article or any addition is a clear copyright violation.
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.
They are, what you need to do is re-write the infringing part of the article and then re-make the modifications again.
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.
Your additions are recorded, aren't they ? you just need to spend some time reviewing the history of the article to choose which additions to keep.
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?
Of course
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?
Nobody can if you do the process once again. That's the trick.