User talk:Crkerson

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Hi, I have reverted your edit -- it is against the law for Wikipedia to use copyrighted material in our articles without explicit permission. Some of the text you added is taken directly from this copyrighted website; I expect that the rest will also turn out to be copyrighted. To add material, you either need to write it in your own words, or get formal permission to use it. Please ask me if you have any questions. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 19:44, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I got your email, thanks. You can respond to me here; I'll see it.  Let me explain the situation -- please don't think I'm trying to be obstructive, this is something that comes up frequently and is always handled the same way.  I found the material on the ISNR web site, as you described.  I don't see any sort of copyright release there, though.  In the absence of an explicit release, the law says that any work is automatically copyrighted and cannot be used without permission, except brief excerpts that are credited.  There are two things that you could do to allow Wikipedia to use it:  (1) add a statement to the web site that either places the text in the public domain or releases it under a Creative-Commons-attribution-only license; (2) send an email to WP:OTRS asking them to open a ticket -- they will ask for a statement that you are the author of the material and own the copyright to it.  I realize this is all very annoying, but if Wikipedia handles copyrighted material in any other way, it exposes itself to lawsuits that it would be sure to lose.  Regards, Looie496 (talk) 22:05, 16 July 2011 (UTC)