User talk:Mikeperona

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; however, please remember the essential rule of respecting copyrights. Edits to Wikipedia may not contain material from copyrighted sources unless used with permission. It is almost never okay to copy extensive text out of a book or website and paste it into a Wikipedia article with little or no alteration, though you can clearly and briefly quote copyrighted text in the right circumstances. Content that does not comply with this legal rule must be removed. For more information on this, see:
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Copyrights
In the edit summary for this edit, you write that the source material is not copyrighted; it is public material that you helped author. -- WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:03, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Neither the specific page posted, nor the general Ohio Department of Education website, contains a disclaimer allow thing reproduction of that website's material under any license compatible with Wikipedia's licensing requirements.
 * 2) "Public" material is not relevant. While material created by the United States government is explicitly free of copyright protection, individual states do not offer the same release from copyright. (If Ohio is an exception to this rule, you'll need to provide a link to a page that states that explicitly.)
 * 3) Your authorship of the material is not relevant. Once it was published by the ODE, they became the presumptive copyright owners. If you wish to publish this material at Wikipedia, you'll need to have an ODE official, using an official ODE email account, contact the Wikimedia Foundation to release copyright claims. (See WP:Donating copyrighted material.) However, this is probably not a worthwhile effort because, in addition to the copyright problems, the material posted was not appropriate for Wikipedia because it was somewhat promotional in nature.
 * It may seem surprising that a document you helped author, and presumably created to help inform the public, cannot be used as part of a Wikipedia edit to an article about the subject. However, I can confirm that WikiDan61 is exactly right. It is almost certain that while you may have contributed to the authorship, you either explicitly or implicitly transferred your copyright to the Ohio Department of Education, and they have not explicitly provided a license text which would allow it to be used in a Wikipedia article.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:11, 10 April 2019 (UTC)