Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 March 13

13 March 2011
SCV for 2011-03-13 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * United States tax law and social policy ([ history] · [ last edit]) from https://patriottaxsolutions.com/blog/the-federal-tax-law/. The new article is actually a whole split-off section from our article Taxation in the United States which existed already before the external blog entry was created (17 February 2011). But now we've got the problem that the blog seems to be using Wiki text under its own copyright without proper crediting. Whose text is now licensed in which way? De728631 (talk) 19:41, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * This appears to be reverse infringement: The patriottaxsolutions.com site was only posted on February 17th, while the phrase "instrument of social policy" and surrounding text has been in the original article since March 2005. Much of that portion of the article appears to be mirrored elsewhere on Internet, but the earliest I could find (ezinearticles.com/?What-Is-Tax-Law?&id=57375) was from August 2005, so it looks to me like it evolved here - it's just poorly sourced because it's old content and hasn't really been updated since. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:53, 13 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting support.svg Backwardscopy. Tag and explanation placed at talk page. Well, explanation in edit summary but not on talk since the article was redirected. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:08, 21 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pamela Evans ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.pamelaevans.org.uk/biog.php, currently licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 only. From the username (User:Matthew niddler) and comments on the talk page, the contributor does not appear to be the copyright holder so I have advised that GFDL is also required. January ( talk ) 21:56, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * As I understand it, there was an attempt to resolve the license problem at http://www.pamelaevans.org.uk/biog.php by changing the license on the page. However, the license was changed to a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, which doesn't permit commercial use. The article was appropriately blanked pending resolution. I see that the site now has a CC SA 3.0 unported license, so that should be OK, right? There is a note at the talk page suggesting that GFDL is also required. Is this true?-- SPhilbrick  T  00:53, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was mistaken in thinking that GFDL was also required, I've just clarified with User:Moonriddengirl that CC-BY-SA is fine in this case. January ( talk ) 18:17, 16 March 2011 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Pictogram voting support.svg|20px]] No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. All good now. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Sunflow ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted from http://sunflow.sourceforge.net/index.php?pg=feat. VWBot (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:13, 21 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Roger Forsythe ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted. VWBot (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Everything Bad Is Good for You ([ history] · [ last edit]) Close paraphrase. VWBot (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Eh. Maybe an overuse of quotations, but I agreed that the article in general needed work. Rather than quibbling with the tag, I just gave it the work it needed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:48, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Nicole Bartelme ([ history] · [ last edit]) Close paraphrase. VWBot (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I think I got the last remnants. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:30, 23 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Peter Palese ([ history] · [ last edit]) Close paraphrase of http://www.mssm.edu/departments-and-institutes/microbiology/about-us/meet-the-chair and http://www.mssm.edu/profiles/peter-palese. Relisting. VWBot (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:03, 23 March 2011 (UTC)