Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 July 4
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- Susan Alice Buffett (history · last edit) from http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/080430c/ http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1999/b3652114.arc.htm. CCI. Pohick2. Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:48, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:11, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Angampora (history · last edit) from http://www.kaputa.com/sports/old_sports/angampora.htm. Chanaka L (talk) 04:53, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- Hmm. That's kind of the least of it. :/ More urgently, it also copies from [1] and [2]. I'll see what I can salvage. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:17, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:22, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Jeff Smulyan (history · last edit) from [3]. 71.62.0.46 (talk) 16:30, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:26, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- MS Pride of Rotterdam (history · last edit) from http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/hull/. ascidian | talk-to-me 17:14, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Already replaced. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:27, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Highway Code (history · last edit) from http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20060715135118/highwaycode.gov.uk/. Schuhpuppe (talk) 17:50, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:34, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Black Hammock Wilderness Area (history · last edit) from http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/leisure/natland/bhammock.asp. Copyright status of work by the Florida government links to relevant statutes, and notes that there are some exclusions to the statutes, but it's not clear whether this county parks page is granted the exclusion by law or not. Empty Buffer (talk) 18:45, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- Having lived in Florida, it is generally accepted principal that under Statue 119.01(1) websites maintained by local governments are subject to the public records law and can be copied in any way that seen fit. As per the page EmptyBuffer brought up (Copyright status of work by the Florida government), this is also made clear in Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner. Frank0051 (talk) 18:55, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
It is the general interpretation on Wikipedia that this material is PD. See Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-FLGov, for instance. For the record, since that conversation closed before the response from our lawyer, I'll note that our official position is "no official position." It can be difficult to work out, when some Florida websites do claim copyright (perhaps fraudulently), but we have not typically treated this content as a copyright concern. Given that information, I leave it to the editors of the article to restore the content or not, understanding that if Florida ever decides to get aggressive about this and should manage to hold the day, it would be the liability of the contributor who placed the content. I'm staying out of it. :) That said, if the content is copied, please be sure to attribute it in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism. I don't think we have a template specifically to note duplication of text from a Florida government website, but a note that content is copied verbatim suffices. I would myself probably just mock up something based on Template:NIMH or other US PD templates. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:47, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Sounds sensible to me. I'll restore the copyrighted content (and maybe edit it a bit for WP:NPOV). Thanks for the help. Empty Buffer (talk) 17:54, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Wanås Castle (history · last edit) from this swedish page, by a translation. You can see that google translate gives exactly the same text. Fronſère (talk) 20:56, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- We have a Swedish copyright admin; I've asked him to take a look. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:52, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Theleftorium (talk) 16:25, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Atkins Tennis Center (history · last edit) from http://www.fightingillini.com/facilities/AtkinsTennisCenter.html and http://www.fightingillini.com/facilities/AtkinsCourtTime.html. Cassandra 73 (talk) 21:01, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- LoveLife (history · last edit) Close paraphrase of here. VWBot (talk) 00:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
User was not notified, relisting under today's entry. It's verbatim copy / pasting with a bit of rearranging. Relisting since the close paraphrase does not notify the user. --MLauba (Talk) 10:12, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- British Arabs (history · last edit) from http://www.arab-communities.org/downloads/about-british-arabs.pdf. Tagged by User:Cordless Larry. VernoWhitney (talk) 11:31, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MLauba (Talk) 10:10, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
- Katerina Graham (history · last edit) from http://katgraham.com/#/Bio/. Tagged by User:Logical Fuzz. VernoWhitney (talk) 11:31, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MLauba (Talk) 10:10, 14 July 2010 (UTC)