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Wikipedia:Copyright problems

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Add links to pages that you suspect of being copyright infringements here. Page titles should stay listed for a minimum of 7 days before a decision is made.

As well as nominating potential copyvios for deletion, you could:

  • replace them with new content of your own, or
(however, note that by replacing the content you are creating a page history that starts with a possible copyright violation, i.e. the original page history will have the infringing copyright material residing on Wikipedia. There is no clear consensus about what to do about this problem or what it means. The more prudent course of action may be to wait until the page is deleted and then create a new page without the infringing material on the page history. (this is currently under discussion, until a policy is agreed upon it is up to you to decide what to do, see the talk page and Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages) [added September 5, 2003]).

See also: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, Wikipedia:Deletion policy, Wikipedia:Copyrights

(newly added on 8/27/03 - subject to revision, please post comments on the talk page)

If you believe Wikipedia is infringing your content, you may choose to raise the issue using this page and the standard copyright infringement notice as described below. Alternatively, you may choose to contact Wikipedia's designated agent under the terms of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act.

Note that Wikipedians do not have the ability to remove copyright infringements from an article's page history. Therefore, if you believe that material in an article's page history infringes your copyright, you should contact Wikipedia's designated agent, rather than using this page.

Add the following text to pages that you list here, replacing whatever was previously in the article.

Removed possible [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|copyright infringement]]. Text that was previously posted here is the same as text from this webpage:
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This page is now listed on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/copyvio]]. To the poster: If there was permission to use this material under terms of our [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|license]] or if you are the copyright holder of the externally linked text, then please indicate so on this page's talk page (to access the talk page, click on ''Discuss this page'' in the sidebar). If there was no permission to use this text then please either replace this message with at least a [[Wikipedia:The perfect stub article|good stub]] and an external link or leave this page to be deleted. (NOTE: unless a stub replaces this text, 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.
Thanks, ~~~~

Notice for images

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:Votes for deletion/copyvio]]. 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.
Thanks, ~~~~

Sept 17: Image:Martov_2.jpg--I placed this picture up a while ago, assuming it was taken before 1923 (since he died in 1920), but didn't realize the picture had to be *published* before 1923 (not taken). I am erring on the side of caution and asking whether it should be deleted. --- Xamian 17:52, 17 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Probably a case where we should meta:avoid copyright paranoia. Any details available about where you got it from?
It came from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSmartov.htm Xamian
Moved from VfD on Sept 17. Angela has e-mailed the author of the website in question to enquire about the photograph's copyright status.

September 17/18

For some reason images can not be deleted at the moment. The following have been listed since September 17th or 18th and await deletion:

image:Cat_espl.jpg, image:congress.jpg,image:palacio_planalto_mini.jpg, Image:Strait of gibraltar.jpg


September 21

  • Image:HumpbackWhaleLeaping.jpg - page description say PD image from http://www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov, but the site say Commercial or organizational publication of imagery used on this site is not advised without first consulting with the individual photographers. To contact a photographer or discuss use of imagery found on this site, please contact ... -- Looxix 11:00, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)

September 22

September 23

  • Image:Padres-logo.gif and Image:Dodgerslogo.gif are copyrighted property of their respective organizations. Unless someone has obtained written permission from both the teams and Major League Baseball, these images would constitute copyright violations. This would be true of all North American sports logos on either the college or professional level. Licensing and merchandising are big money for sports. There maybe more in the MLB pages, but these are the two I noticed. vudu 00:39, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • There are more. It would appear that the culprit would be User:LittleDan, who would also appear to be about fourteen years old his user page is to be believed). Probably just being zealous. A quick look at his contribution list unearthed logos for the Cleveland Indians, Miami Dolphins, and Anaheim Angels as well. As an aside, these really aren't copyright violations, but trademark infringement. vudu 00:56, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
      • I'm sorry. When I uploaded those, I had a bad sense of copyright law. Since nobody sells that logo, I thought it could be used, but now I understand how it works. LDan 20:43, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
        • So what's the resolution? I'm trying to follow some sort of protocol here, else I would have removed them myself. I'd say it's either up to you LDan or a sysop. Either way, it needs to be done. vudu 03:12, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I made Stax Records into a stub before I saw this. That one can stay. -- Infrogmation 00:40, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)

September 24

September 25

  • Ahmet Necdet Sezer - the original copyright violation can still be noticed, as only the half-sentences were completed. Does this count as copyvio? It was on the Pages needing attention quite some time already. andy 19:37, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Image:Marseilles.jpg, Image:Arc de Triomphe.jpg, Image:Sartre2.jpg - Anthère
    • Why? It is not obvious why these could be considered copyright violations. In the description for the first one it is claimed to be a personal photo. Why do you think they are copyright violations? -- Popsracer 10:12, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
      • I put here any pictures that french people have received from en, and decide to delete for various reasons.
      • We decided we were not sure the picture of Sartre would fit the fair use defense. And it obviously is not a personal picture
      • Both Marseilles and Arc de Triomphe pictures are clearly the work of a professional. It is indeed very possible that these are personal pictures, since the one who uploaded these pictures likes France, so could have been there to take the pictures. Marseilles would be the most plausible, but still looks to good not to be a non-professional pict, so we don't accept the comment and decided it was likely a cp picture. As for Arc de Triomphe, this is a very good pict, that would make a good deal of money on the market. I doubt very much a professional would just offer it that way for the sake of gfdl. And if a professional writer was just offering it like this, it would be more proper for him to provide his real identity. In these cases, the uploader has a history of providing pictures of dubious origin, with refusal to answer requests. On these two ones, I am not very inclined to trust. Anthère
    • I second the deletion of the second one :-) The uploader has a history of being problematic with copyrights (and thus being hard banned), so doubts on the first one are also valid. andy 11:59, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

September 26

  • David Scott - it is a copy from the NASA JSC biography [10], however the policy [11] says in point 1 You may use NASA imagery, video and audio material if it is for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits and Internet Web pages. If I read it correctöy this seem not to include text. However point 8 says any material is not copyrighted unless stated otherwise. So I am puzzled - can we keep it. Do we need to reword is more? andy 11:54, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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