User:Ebe123/Adopt/Gregory Heffley

Hi Greg, here's the first lesson. It is about copyright. Tell me when done. So this page will look nicer soon too. Ebe 123 → report on my contribs. 23:46, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Copyright
Welcome to the lesson discussing Copyright. It's one of the most important lessons I teach, because not adhering to it can lead to a ban (block as we will discuss later) from Wikipedia. I'm hoping to take you back to basics and will be focusing on images. However, a lot of the same concepts apply to other media files and even text too! I'll mention a bit more about that at the end of the lesson.

Questions
This is a very complex topic, is there anything you don't understand? Now's a great time to ask about those weird situations.

Copyright
Q1) Do you think Wikipedia *is* free?
 * A- Yes
 * Well, I'm not grading this since it's a personal opinion.

Q2) When can you upload a picture to Commons?
 * A- When it is free use
 * Could you explain more?
 * When you make the picture or when the copyright has expired.
 * Correct

Q3) You find music displaying this licence (non-commercial). Wikimedia is non-commerical, can we upload it to Commons?
 * A- No because if Wikimedia is non-commercial doesn't mean we can use it. It is a copyright violation.
 * Correct.

Q4) A user uploads a poster which is a composite of all the Beatles album covers. Can he do this? It is his own unique composition.
 * A- No it isn't, it's plagiarism.
 * Correct

Q5) Can you upload a press image of the Pope?
 * A- No because he is a living person and that picture should be copyrighted.
 * Why?
 * Correct

Q6) Can you upload a press image of a prisoner on death row?
 * A- Yes
 * Why?
 * Come to think of it, No.
 * Again why?
 * The image is about a person that hasn't been dead for a while.

Q7) You find an article that matches a company website About Us page exactly. What do you do? You check the talk page, and there's no evidence that the text has been released under WP:CC-BY-SA
 * A- You should mark that page for deletion
 * No, since there's a CSD criterium.

Q8) Can you see any issues with doing a cut-and-paste move?
 * A- yes, plagiarism
 * Correct.

Q9) A final practical test... Go. Have a snoop around some wikipedia articles, see if you can find an image which is currently being used under "fair use". Come back and link to it (using File:IMAGENAME. You must get the : before the File name, as we cannot display the image here!)
 * A- File:Diary of a wimpy kid.jpg
 * Incorect, this is a free use image, as publication in the United States was before the magic date January 1, 1923. Also, if it were fair use, then you would of had to put a colon.  Here's a link.  WP:FAIRUSE