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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Maximus Rex (talk | contribs) at 05:53, 28 April 2004. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.


This page is intended for listing and discussing copyright problems on Wikipedia, including pages and images which are suspected to be in violation.

If you list a page or image here, be sure to follow the instructions in the "Copyright infringement notice" section below. Page titles should stay listed for a minimum of 7 days before a decision is made.

See also: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, Wikipedia:Deletion policy, Wikipedia:Copyrights, Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages, Wikipedia:Image description page, Wikipedia:Request for immediate removal of copyright violation, Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission, Wikipedia:Sites that use Wikipedia for content, m:Do fair use images violate the GFDL?, m:Fair use, Wikipedia:Fair use, copyright

Alternatives

In addition to nominating potential copyvios for deletion, you could:

  • Replace the article's text with new (re-written) content of your own: This can be done on a temp page, so that the original "copyvio version" may be deleted by a sysop. Temp versions should be written at a page like: [[PAGE NAME/temp]]. If the original turns out to be not a copyvio, these two can be merged.
  • Write to the owner of the copyright to check whether they gave permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!).
  • Ask for permission - see wikipedia:boilerplate request for permission, Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission

If you believe Wikipedia is infringing your copyright, you may choose to raise the issue using Wikipedia:Request for immediate removal of copyright violation. Alternatively, you may choose to contact Wikipedia's designated agent under the terms of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act.

Actions to take for text

Remove the text of the article, and replace it with the following:

{{msg:copyvio1}}
<place URL of allegedly copied material here>
{{msg:copyvio2}}
~~~~
'''Rewrite article at: [[<replace with article name>/Temp]]'''

Where you replace "<place URL of allegedly copied material here>" with the Web address (or book or article reference) that contains the original source text. After removing the suspected text violation add an entry on this page under the List of possible copyright infringements section.

Actions to take for images

If you suspect an image is violating copyright, add the below text to the image information page:

This image is a possible [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|copyright infringement]] and should therefore not be used by any article. <explain reason for suspicion here>

This image is now listed on [[Wikipedia:Copyright problems]]. To the poster: If there was permission to use this image under terms of our [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|license]] or if you are its copyright holder, then please indicate so here (click ''Edit this page'' in the sidebar) - see our [[Wikipedia:Image use policy|image use policy]] for tips on this. NOTE: deletion will occur about one week from the time this page title was placed on the Votes for deletion page.

It also should be noted that the posting of copyrighted material that does ''not'' have the express permission from the copyright holder is possibly in violation of applicable law and of our [[Wikipedia:Copyright|policy]]. Those with a history of violations may be temporarily [[Special:Ipblocklist|suspended]] from editing pages. If this is in fact an infringement of copyright, we still welcome any original contributions by you.

If you believe that this image may be used by Wikipedia and by all sublicensees under the [[fair use]] doctrine, then please add a detailed ''fair use rationale'' as described on [[Wikipedia:Image description page]] to justify this belief.

Thanks, ~~~~

After adding the text to the image information page add an entry on this page under the List of possible copyright infringements section.

Amazon copyrights

An interest has been expressed in the Wikipedia community to use images from Amazon.com, particularly with regard to cover art from commercial music recordings (albums).

When approached about permission to use images from their site, Amazon.com's official response was that such permission simply wasn't theirs to give. They say that the copyrights still belong to the holders of copyrights in the original works.

At this time, there is no official Wikipedia policy for or against using Amazon.com as a source of images such as album cover art. Note, however, that Wikipedia copyright policy is still in effect—uploaded images' descriptions should still contain proper attribution, a copyright notice if copyrighted, and a fair-use rationale if fair use is being claimed. (Simply make sure that the copyright is attributed to the true copyright holder and not Amazon.com.) For specific guidelines on images and copyright, see Wikipedia:Copyrights#Image_guidelines.

Possible copyright violation in Page History

Image deletion problems



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April 15

April 16

  • Elements song also contains the complete lyrics to the song. Was recently added to an existing article -- I'm not sure whether to blank the page or just revert to pre-copy state. Bkonrad | Talk 01:30, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC) Note: it has since been edited to remove the lyrics, though they are still in history. Bkonrad | Talk 13:49, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Shaft passer from [30]. Guanaco 23:59, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I don't see a way to fix this. I just added it to Vfd. (Vfd discussion) It is really just an old troll anyway. --ssd 16:24, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I'm not seeing what the problem is here. The shaft passer article has a brief quote from one of Feynman's books ("Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman", apparently) and the quote is identified as such. This is allowed by fair use, is it not? -- BTW I don't think it's accurate to describe [31] as the source of the text in question, as that web site is just a copy of the text of the book. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:02, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 17

  • Image:PaulErdos2.jpg from [32]. I contacted the editor who uploaded the image and he said he didn't obtain permission from the copyright holder. (He said he got it from another web site which was vague about the copyright.) Wile E. Heresiarch 02:42, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Ex-premie from [33]. Keep an eye on User:Jossifresco, he/she has been adding several copyrighted articles, and when a copyvio boilerplate is added to the page, the User just creates a new article with a slightly different name and copies the copyrighted material back again. RickK 04:04, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Image:Bbc_logo.JPG - [34] states: "The BBC logo is the copyright of the British Broadcasting Corporation and may only be reproduced when authorised. BBC is a trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation." -- Marknew 11:15, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Image:Nellalarsen44.png. [36] credits the photo to Carl van Vecten, who died in 1964. Not public domain til at least 2034, and no evidence of copyright permission. -- Can fair use be argued for this image? Wile E. Heresiarch 16:46, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Adams song contains complete lyrics of copyrighted song. --Tbjablin 23:24, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 18

  • Michael Madsen - a weird case, seemed to start as vandalism, then cleaned up, but is now almost entirely a copyvio from [42] and [43]. Should probably just be deleted and then I'll start over. RADICALBENDER★ 02:04, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Digital artist - the original version was a cut and paste from [44], it has since been editted a bit, but is still clearly recognizable. Bkonrad | Talk 02:22, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • above was: Badanedwa 20:48, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

April 19

  • Battle of Tarawa [48] and that site's subpages. This seems a little weird, as some lines have been rewriten, but the general layout, structure, and some obvious spelling mistakes (a mission men) suggest that this is mostly a cut and paste transfer. Gentgeen 09:03, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Image:Jannat al Baqi.jpg — taken from [50] which doesn't seem to have information on the image's copyright. The uploader seems to have assumed that lack of copyright information means public domain. — Timwi 14:59, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 20

April 21

  • George Rogers Clark has had a notice on it since March 10. I don't know if it was ever added to this list. Is it possible to exedite this one? Bkonrad | Talk 02:28, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Image:Grb.gif from [67] (URL [68]). The site says: "The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2001 MyMacedonia.net . All Rights Reserved". --Romanm 10:49, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
      • This picture is picture of Coat of arms. I don`t know if anyone can hold copyright for national coat of arms in Slovenia but in Macedonia coa cannot be copyrighted, the same thing is with other state symbols like flag and anthem.If I sing national anthem on the tv I am not gonna get arrested for singing it because it is public.Also[[69]] was taken from[[70]] but you are not arguing about that! Why?BECAUSE CoA is PUBLIC and Zeljko Heimer doesn`t own Slovenia . Slovenia is country of it`s people just like CoA, Flag and Anthem! Avala 14:51, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
        • Coat of arms cannot be copyrighted by itself. But, if a person draws or photographs coat of arms, he may own the copyright to his drawing or his picture of coat of arms. Andris 21:18, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)
          • It is too hard to determinate if somebody has drawn it. I think it has too look artistic and it is definitely not a case with Image:Grb.gif.
  • Simone Bartolini is a straight-forward and not very good translation of the Italian text at [72], a copyrighted MTV web site. Lupo 12:53, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 22

User:Jondel

I checked all of his edits until 16:09, 22 Apr 2004. Not all seem to be Copyvio, many are minor changes, but there are a couple of articles that he created that seem to be copied straight from the WWW. I think I see a honest effort, but lack of knowledge about copyright. chris_73 07:36, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 23

April 24

April 25

  • FCA mostly copied from [126] which has a "Defence Forces © 2001" notice. Arwel 20:10, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Poster claims there is permission in the site's Ts&Cs to do this, but I can't find it. I have emailed the Irish Defence Forces PR dept for their opinion. Arwel 22:29, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Terms on the Irish Defence Forces do appear to allow use of their website's data as long as the source is credited, so objection withdrawn. -- Arwel 20:02, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Sir Iain Vallance seems to be copied from [127] Hemanshu 20:41, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Camel Trail from [128]. Guanaco 20:52, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Constitution of Medina from [A. Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad — A Translation of Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1955; pp. 231-233.] - Fennec 23:01, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 26

  • FC St. Pauli - this was originally listed on pages needing translation, but the German text seems to be a copy of [132]. Unfortunately, someone's now translated it into English. It seems to be a pretty direct translation, so I guess it's still a copyvio? sjorford 09:09, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Mordecai Ham from [133] - was however blanked by original poster, maybe he/she noticed the wrongdoing. andy 11:34, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)


user:Avala

There seem to be quite a number of straight copies from other sources. Not sure which ones have copyright or not. I checked the users text contributions marked (new) up to 20:16, 26 Apr 2004. In case of doubt, i did not list it here. I did also not check the uploaded images. Here's the list of doubtful entries. -- Chris 73 | (New) Talk 14:15, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I just don`t see different way to rewrite pure facts. If you want to do that OK. But I don`t speak English that GOOD! Avala 19:55, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
OK I will try to do it but I will need some grammar help!

Avala 12:57, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 27

assassin <---> http://www.bartleby.com/61/3/A0470300.html. material inserted here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Assassin&diff=2465589&oldid=2430032. i rewrote as part of larger edit, but have been reverted. Badanedwa 03:10, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)

assassin has been fixed. Badanedwa 05:04, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)

Marine reserve <-- verbatim --> http://www.forest-bird.org.nz/magazines/97aug/marine_reserves.asp Badanedwa 03:52, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)

Mustang (horse) from several places, including [158] RickK 04:58, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Kiger from [159]. among other places. Posted by same person who posted Mustang (horse) above. RickK 05:02, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Goodyear Inflatoplane from [160], same poster as two above. RickK 05:07, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 28

  • Gramophone Awards from [164]. Maximus Rex 04:43, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Take out the first paragraph (or rewrite it) and the rest of this article is just noncopyrightable facts. RickK 04:45, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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