Hey,
I know many irresponsible users try to upload copyrighted material in Wikipedia. What do you do to find which material is copyrighted and how do you handle the situation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyvio ----- Original Message ----- From: "NSK" nsk2@wikinerds.org To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:46 PM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations
Hey,
I know many irresponsible users try to upload copyrighted material in Wikipedia. What do you do to find which material is copyrighted and how do you handle the situation?
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On 4/27/05, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
I know many irresponsible users try to upload copyrighted material in Wikipedia. What do you do to find which material is copyrighted
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spotting_possible_copyright_violations for some advice on finding which material is copyrighted.
and how do you handle the situation?
It depends what it is and how it was found. If it was found via the Foundation receiving a valid take down notice, we'd just take it down. If not, it would be discussed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems for a week before being deleted (assuming no one found out that it wasn't a violation within this time, or sought permission from the copyright owner to release it under the GFDL). If the violation was not a new page, it might just be reverted rather than being deleted (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyright_violations_on_history_pages).
Angela.
I am no expert on how to handle this. One thing you can do if you suspect a copyright violation is to take a short phrase and google that phrase. If you find a match it is best to ask the editor who put it on Wikipedia about it. They may be the author or have permission to use it.
In the case of someone who is copying from a book or article, you have to know the literature, but you might catch it anyway on Amazon which permits search of the text of many books.
One giveaway is a lot of well written language which is not wikified and is not NPOVed.
This reply hardly exhausts this difficult area however.
Fred
From: NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org Organization: Wikinerds Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:46:10 +0300 To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations
Hey,
I know many irresponsible users try to upload copyrighted material in Wikipedia. What do you do to find which material is copyrighted and how do you handle the situation?
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