[WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

[wjhonson at aol.com]

"This file says its in the public domain."

Yes Joe but.
Durova's point, with which I agree, is that they improperly cited their source.
They lifted the picture *from* Wikipedia, and then cited the underlying source.
This normally implies "I actually went to the source and viewed the image directly there."
Which Durova has shown they did not.
In scholarship that is considered a no-no.? You must cite the source *YOU* actually used, not the source your source used.

Will Johnson







-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Reagle 
To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 4:06 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book










On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Durova wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sfearthquake3b.jpg

This file says its in the public domain.

[[
Permission
 (Reusing this image)
Public domain
]]

[[
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of 
the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, 
Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright.
...
]]

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