[Wikipedia-l] Re: no need to remove the article nor the chapter

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

> Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>
>> Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> That's clearly something for the case where a copyrighted piece is
>>> *added* to an article. Not that I would agree to it for wholly new
>>> copyright violations either. I still see no reason for dumping
>>> additional paragraphs as well.
>>>
>> As long as someone can claim the additional paragraphs are "derived"
>> from the copyvio, you would better remove the additional paragraphs as
>> early as possible.
>>
>
> Anybody can "claim" anything.  That does not make it so.  The 
> information is not copyright.  Only the way of expressing it is 
> copyright.  Thus if someone uses all the information from a copyright 
> source, but tells it in his own way that work may be derived from the 
> original but it is not legally a derivative work.  Rewriting the 
> material would be more appropriate.

Exactly.

Copyright do not "protect" ideas but material creations using these 
ideas. Rewriting a text with your own words is not a copyright 
infringement in itself.