User talk:Alanchicagoloop

Copyright concerns
Hi. Another contributor detected similarity between the article Rebel Cole and the subject's biography at. This article was listed for administrator review at the copyright problems board, but it seems that you were not notified as required. Accordingly, I am delivering to you, immediately below, the "form letter" crafted for such situations. It does contain some useful information about how to proceed, either to verify permission or to rewrite material of concern.

The article will be revisited in a week to see what additional steps may be necessary. If you have comments about the situation before that time, please leave them at the article's talk page, Talk:Rebel Cole. I will be watching the article in case I can assist. After that time, you are welcome to come by my use talk page. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

The form letter: Copyright problem: Rebel Cole
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Rebel Cole, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://condor.depaul.edu/~rcole/, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under allowance license, then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Rebel Cole and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Rebel Cole, in your email. See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0, or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Rebel Cole with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Rebel Cole. See Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.

It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [ this temporary page]. Leave a note at Talk:Rebel Cole saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Update regarding copyright concern
Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above and sufficient time has passed since the placement of the notice, the article has been deleted for copyright concerns. This deletion is not necessarily permanent. If you have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (if you are not the copyright holder or have co-authored the material, release under CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone is sufficient), the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost), and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.

As Wikipedia does not require proof of identity on account creation, it is essential that we receive external proof of authorization in order to ensure that we remain compliant with US Copyright law. It is also essential that we verify that copyright holders understand the extent of the release they are authorizing, in that our licenses permit modification and reuse in any forum, even commercial publication, as long as authorship credit is maintained and future copies are compatibly licensed.

Please note that once permission is verified, the material may be evaluated and altered to meet Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Although we appreciate donations, we cannot guarantee that material donated will be retained.

Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:32, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Copyright status of Rebel Cole
Hi. Since I do not know if you log in often, I'm responding to your note here. Entries on my talk page are archived within days, and it may be difficult for you to find my response. You wrote: Could you please let me know what is your concern about copyrite issues regarding this posting? The webpage you cite is professor cole's own webpage, which has no copyrites. I think that you have over-reacted inappropriately. alanchicagoloop

As Wikipedia's copyright policy explains, "All creative works are copyrighted, by international agreement, unless either they fall into the public domain or their copyright is explicitly disclaimed." The threshold for creativity under US copyright law is very low; while material such as chapter titles does not qualify, most sentences will. Under U.S. copyright law, the copyright automatically bestowed on that content will expire 70 years after the death of its copyright owner, which I presume to be Dr. Cole. Since it will not fall into public domain for some time, we can only use it if the copyright is explicitly disclaimed. The process for obtaining such a disclaimer is described above. If you need assistance with it, please let me know. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, he needs to send a letter. See Donating copyrighted materials for more information on where and what the letter needs to say. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:46, 29 August 2010 (UTC)