Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 August 28

Suspected copyright violations (CorenSearchBot reports)

SCV for 2010-08-28 Edit

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
  • Y I wondered why this looked familiar. :) It was addressed along with other listings for the 26th, where it was first bot tagged as a problem. As the bot picked up duplication, either they had it first or www.soundandmusic.org is one of those rare instant mirrors of Wikipedia, and this seems unlikely as it lists the creation date of the content as 14/03/2010, well predating the article's creation, I'm afraid. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:05, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh just noticed that.. <scratches head> odd.. Maybe their English is a little rusty and they found my wording suited their purposes perfectly. It's ok to quote me though, ;) I release all my contributions under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL licenses. -- œ 05:33, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Y I believe it was here first. Look at this edit. The external site says, "No charges had been made to then for the production or distribution of hate propaganda under the Criminal Code." Why would he have pasted it inaccurately and then fixed it? Note, too, the following in that external source: "CAERS began lobbying all levels of government and holding demonstrations outside libraries.[17]" There are no footnotes on that page, but 17 is the footnote number of that content in that edit. Note, too, the rearrangement of text here; the external site follows the later organization. It seems that this user may be an employee, who constructed the content here and then exported it to the website. I've tagged it as a backwards copy, I suppose, unless we get further evidence. Thanks so much for noting your concerns that we may have had it first, because I might have missed those clues otherwise! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:04, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • One question though, on the website at the bottom of the page it reads "Copyright Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research 1996-2010" This makes it seem like the text is copyrighted, but if it originated on Wikipedia first then it was released under CC-BY-SA, so it looks like they want to have it both ways, can they do this? -- œ 05:24, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Only if the person who added the content there is the same person who added it here. We don't require him to relinquish his copyright, just to license it for us. If he placed it there independently, he can publish it under copyright notice there. Doesn't mean people can't come snag it from us, though. :) If it isn't the same person, but just somebody who liked the way our contributor put it, yes, they are violating his copyright. The only one with legal recourse, though, is him. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:29, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]