[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

[Chris McKenna]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Marco Chiesa wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Hoi
>> I know several authors who publish and use their original text to publish
>> on Wikipedia as well.. This is another source of false positives because
>> they have the copyright to the original source... To recognise this you
>> have to be even more sophisticated.
>>
>
> Actually, we consider these as copyvios, we delete the text straight away,
> and we tell the editor "if you're the author write to OTRS". Of course, if
> the text is already somewhere else under a compatible free-license, we
> don't need this. Until you can't be sure that User:MrX is actually the
> physical person MrX, we need to protect the author's right.
>

But an automated tool can not know whether OTRS verification has happened 
or not.

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