On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:57:04PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 1/20/07, Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au wrote:
http://www.justrec.com/wilderness.html
This is just one of several articles on this site that appears to be a direct copy of the WP article. Scouting is another. They claim copyright on the page and do not mention WP. Is this legit?
When this came up a few months ago, we concluded that it was not illegal to falsely claim copyright. It doesn't make their claim valid, but it's certainly easier for many sites to simply claim copyright over everything appearing on their site than to work out which part of that claim would actually be valid.
Steve
This is pretty new to me. This site has all its substantial content taken from Wikipedia, yet it claims to have copyright on it. I do not think that is right. I have flagged it on the appropriate pages on WP and I have finally tracked down the details of the site. I will e-mail them tomorrow. Right now I'm off to bed having been on the turps.
Cheers, Brian.