[Wikipedia-l] Copyright violated in Talks

[Erik Moeller]

Menchi-
> Some people consistently move passages (usually the entire article) of
> copyright violations to Talk pages. Talks may not necessarily be considered
> Wikipedia proper. But they are still integral part of Wikipedia operations
> nevertheless.

> This such behaviour acceptable?

Depends on the length of the infringed text. It is completely legal to  
quote one or two paragraphs from a copyrighted work under virtually every  
jurisdiction, although such quotes should be clearly recognizable as such.  
However, copying an entiry copyrighted article to the talk page is not  
acceptable, since the talk pages are google-indexed. In that case, please  
blank the page. (Which raises another issue, namely copyright  
infringements in article histories. That could be addressed, if necessary,  
by implementing a deletion feature for individual article revisions, which  
would actually be relatively simple to do.)

Regards,

Erik