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ATTENTION: For blatant copyright infringements:
- If there is a clean revision in the page history, revert to it.
- If not, request speedy deletion with {{db-copyvio|url=http://www.WhereItCameFrom.tld/}}
- If you are not sure who originally authored the material, list it here instead for investigation.
This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems on Wikipedia, including pages and images which are suspected to be copyright violations. To request examination before including questionable content in an article, see Wikipedia:Requested copyright examinations.
Copyright owners
If you believe Wikipedia is infringing your copyright, you may request immediate removal of the copyright violation. Alternatively, you may contact Wikipedia's designated agent under the terms of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act.
Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia
If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published (especially online), and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work, while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. It is sufficient to either:
- Make a note permitting reuse under the GFDL at the site of the original publication; or
- Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en at wikimedia dot org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation.
See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
What's copyrighted?
Copyright exists automatically upon creation in a tangible form. An author does not need to apply for or even claim copyright for a copyright to exist. Only an explicit statement that the material is in the public domain, licensed with the GFDL, or is otherwise compatible with the GFDL, makes material reusable under current policy, unless it is inherently in the public domain due to age or source.
What about fair use?
Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only with full attribution and only when the purpose is to comment on or criticize the text quoted.
If you see an article somewhere else which was copied from Wikipedia without attribution, visit the GFDL compliance page or meta:Non-compliant site coordination.
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Plagiarism that does not infringe copyright
Wikipedia will naturally refer to and include some material that comes from outside sources. This material may be in the public domain, may be included under a fair use argument, or it may be under a license compatible with the license used on Wikipedia, the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Examples of public-domain works include text and images from United States Government publications, and older works—such as the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica—that are no longer, or never were, covered by copyright. Some further examples are at Category:Attribution templates.
Even when material is not covered by copyright, it is still important to state its origin, including its authors or creators. Failure to include the origin of a work is misleading and also makes it more difficult for readers and editors to refer to the material's source. It may also violate the terms of the GFDL.
Material that is plagiarised but which does not violate copyright does not need to be removed from Wikipedia if it can be properly sourced. Add appropriate source information to the article wherever possible, or move unsourced material to an article's talk page until sources can be found.
If an editor has copied text or figures into Wikipedia without proper attribution, politely refer him to Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Citing sources, and/or Help:Citations quick reference. Editors who have difficulties or questions about this guidance can be referred to the Help Desk. Editors engaged in ongoing plagiarism who do not respond to polite requests may be blocked from editing.
Repeated copyright violations
Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing to protect the project, see 17 United States Code 512.
Instructions
Material whose presence on Wikipedia infringes copyright (ie. the material is not Public Domain, licensed under the GFDL or specifically licensed to Wikipedia on suitable terms) should, as a general rule, be removed.
Blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:
- Material was copied from another website which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia;
- There is no non-infringing content in the page history worth saving.
- The text on Wikipedia really is an infringement of another source (Wikipedia has numerous mirrors — Make sure we're copying someone else, not the other way around)
- Uploader does not assert permission (for images: no assertion aside from tags) or fair use, or the assertion is questionable
After notifying the uploading editor, add one of these to the page:
- {{db-copyvio | url=insert URL of source here}}
- {{db-copyvio | describe non-web source here}}
An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to delete it or not. You should not blank the page in this instance.
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- Revert the page to a non-copyrighted version if you can
- The infringing text will remain in the page history for archival reasons unless the copyright holder asks the Wikimedia Foundation to remove it.
- However, if all revisions have copyright problems:
- Place on the page one of the following:
- {{subst:copyvio | url=insert URL here}}
- {{subst:copyvio | identify non-web source here}}
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- This will blank all text beneath the template. (To limit blanking, place </div> at the end of the text to be blanked.)
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- Go to today's section and add
- * {{subst:article-cv | PageName}} from insert URL or identify non-web source here ~~~~
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- to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. (This text can be copied from the top of the template after substituting it and the page name and url will be filled for you)
- Advise the contributor of the material at his or talk page. The template on the now blanked page supplies a notice you may use for that purpose.
- You're done!
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- Add one of the following to the image description page:
- {{imagevio | url=insert URL here}}~~~~
- {{imagevio | identify non-web source here}}~~~~
- Go to today's section and add:
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- * {{subst:image-cv | Image:ImageName}} from insert URL or identify non-web source here ~~~~
- to the bottom of the list. Put the image's name in place of "ImageName".
- Add the following to the image uploader's talk page:
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- {{subst:idw-cp | Image:ImageName}}
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Pages should stay listed for a minimum of 7 days before a decision is made. All pages tagged with {{copyvio}} are placed in Category:Possible copyright violations.
Alternatives to deletion
In addition to nominating potential copyright infringements for deletion, you may:
- Rewrite the article, excluding copyrighted text. This is done on a temporary page at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the original, copyright-infringing version can be deleted by an administrator and the rewrite copied over. If the original turns out to be non-infringing, these two can be merged.
- Write to the owner and Ask for permission. Check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). Also see Wikipedia:Example requests for permission, Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission.
Instructions for special cases
- Category:Unfree images: These may be listed, if indeed they are not available under a free license or a reasonable fair use rationale. Note that some of these may not actually be unfree images, but rather images which are released under multiple licenses.
- Non-free licenses
- These images are available for use on Wikipedia, but are not released under the GFDL. According to Jimbo Wales, we cannot use images that are not GFDL and are not usable under a fair use rationale. Images from these categories may be listed here, but be sure that the image is not also available under a free license, and that a fair use claim cannot be made.
- Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that an article contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you aren't sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place {{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}} on the article's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the article version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.)
Instructions for administrators
Listings should be checked and processed by administrators after 7 days. See Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins for some help.
See also
Listings of possible copyright problems
Very old issues
Remaining older issues, consolidated
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- Uploader may not be the copyright holder, so I've sent an email to info (at) gilbane.com to contact permissions-en (at) wikimedia.org. -- Robocoder (t|c) 21:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
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- 7 day courtesy notice expires July 28 at approx. 21:30 UTC. Please note resolution other than deletion here. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:56, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
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- Creator asserts permission grant as representative of copyright holder. Left a message on his Talk page to see WP:IOWN. -- Robocoder (t|c) 21:17, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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- Replaced article with copyvio template. Verifying permission may not be an easy matter, as he asserts that the identified source copied from another source from which he received permission, but that other source does not display the text. I have reinforced your message with a modified {{nothanks-web}}. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:55, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
- Consolidated to allow creator a few extra days following notice. Please not resolution other than deletion here. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Older than 7 days
- Below are articles and images that have been listed here for longer than 7 days, but have not yet been dealt with.
Articles
- The article has been deleted by WP:CSD#A7, as a biography that does not assert the importance of its subject. I contemplated merging it to the article on his father, which did, but as there were no reliable sources did not. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Only source a wiki. Redirected to parent article. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:43, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- revised & tagged for ref improve. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:02, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Revised to remove remaining copyvio. Warning at article talk page not to restore. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:14, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Only duplicated run of words detected is "president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs", which is a title. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:18, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Copyvio already deleted from history. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:20, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Public domain. Already accordingly noted. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:05, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- GFDL released. Already so noted. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:06, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Deleted from history. Contributor warned. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:31, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Copyvio revised or removed; note at talk warning against restoration. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:25, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Given additions, revised to remove copyvio. Note left at article talk cautioning against restoration. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:21, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Copyvio deleted from history. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:36, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Permission received and duly recorded. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:37, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Cleaned. Note at article talk. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:47, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Images
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- The Kotaku watermark is still visible in the bottom right corner! Tagged for speedy deletion per CSD I9. -- Robocoder (t|c) 19:21, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- The earlier revisions, lifted from drumrocker.com, are also copyvios. -- Robocoder (t|c) 21:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
New listings
Articles
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- Verified that article text lifted from the powerpoint presentation's Notes. Creator already notified on Talk page. -- Robocoder (t|c) 19:42, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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- Creator claims to be/represent copyright holder on the article's Talk page. Have left a note on editor's Talk page to see WP:IOWN. -- Robocoder (t|c) 19:42, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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- Kelly's template page always generates a false positive. -- Robocoder (t|c) 06:24, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Images
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- Uploader has left Wikipedia.[40] Image was taken from the reported site[41] and cropped. I found no express PD claims on the site. However, there is the blanket copyright notice on the site. Tagging this for deletion. -- Robocoder (t|c) 14:13, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Articles
- ArticleName (history · last edit) from [42]. Kingturtle (talk) 05:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- Children's Rights Council (history · last edit) from [43].
- Ford Mustang variants from http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2004/04/MustangGTR. 74.218.23.134 (talk) 19:26, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- Almost seventeen (history · last edit) from [44]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- J. B. Selkirk (history · last edit) from [45]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- Masnurul (history · last edit) from [46]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- Roger Daley (history · last edit) from [47]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- Sabrina Costelana Newman (history · last edit) from [48]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- Ford Mustang variants (history · last edit) (url not detected). Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- Nakshi kantha (history · last edit) (url not detected). Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- FizzyD (history · last edit) from [49]. Edison (talk) 23:54, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Images
Articles
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- I've re-tagged the article as db-g12. Maybe this time it'll stick. -- Robocoder (t|c) 05:56, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
- I know this isn't a copyvio per se, but it doesn't seem like we have a dedicated mechanism for "Possibly Unfree Text", so: Articles on Polish sailplanes:
- In every case, the text has been taken from the website of the Geelong Gliding Club, and the original contributor says that this was done with permission. The trouble is, we don't know what permission was given, the the contributor has left Wikipedia. The Club's website's pages bear copyright notices, so it looks like even if Wikipedia was allowed to use this text, it hasn't been released under a free licence.
- I emailed the club about this nearly a week ago, but haven't had a response yet. --Rlandmann (talk) 22:27, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
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