User talk:Sullybug

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Copyright and plagiarism
Hi Sullybug! I'm the content expert for your course and recently I received a notification that some of the content you added to the page was taken from somewhere else, which can be seen as plagiarism and a copyright violation.

It looks like you used content taken from the FEMA website and from websites on state agencies such as the one from California. According to this, most content published by the federal government is considered to not have a copyright, but some documents do and you need to verify that each federal document is in the public domain. You also need to tag the page accordingly to show that the page contains material taken from a federal document. I'll find the proper template for this for you. The content in quotation marks is fine as long as you cite the source material, but otherwise it cannot be used unless you tag the page properly.

Now when it comes to state agencies, some of them do not publish their work into the public domain and instead hold a copyright on their work. California is one of the states that doesn't put their work into the public domain, so you cannot take content from them - you have to re-write this in your own words.

I've removed the content for the time being. Be careful about this since public domain rights (and the places that copyright their work) can be pretty tricky. Just in case, I would like you to review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 11:13, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

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