Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com writes:
That's clearly something for the case where a copyrighted piece is *added* to an article. Not that I would agree to it for wholly new copyright violations either. I still see no reason for dumping additional paragraphs as well.
As long as someone can claim the additional paragraphs are "derived" from the copyvio, you would better remove the additional paragraphs as early as possible.
Anybody can "claim" anything. That does not make it so. The information is not copyright. Only the way of expressing it is copyright. Thus if someone uses all the information from a copyright source, but tells it in his own way that work may be derived from the original but it is not legally a derivative work. Rewriting the material would be more appropriate.
Exactly.
Copyright do not "protect" ideas but material creations using these ideas. Rewriting a text with your own words is not a copyright infringement in itself.