Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2013 January 14

14 January 2013
SCV for 2013-01-14 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Head and neck cancer ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK12895/ and Cancer Medicine Volume 6; see talk. Small CCI. Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:02, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:37, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Nicolas Maurice Arthus ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/22.html. Boud (talk) 15:15, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The copyvio seems to come from by a one-edit-only logged-in user, two years ago. Some edits have been made since then by other users (including my correction of two typos that were also present in the source!), mostly small. This should not be difficult to clean up and recover edits to other parts of the article. Boud (talk) 15:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Thank you for your very thorough evaluation. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:41, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Armalite AR-50 ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://azfirearms.com/index.php/rifles/all.html?dir=asc&order=name. Psychonaut (talk) 15:28, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * English versions of the Nicene Creed ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from several web and non-web sources, all identified in article. There's a fair use argument being made on the talk page. There are many other articles, also mentioned on the talk page, that will need to be cleaned if it is decided that this is not fair use. JFH (talk) 20:54, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Nutshell: I believe that we may use excerpts to analyze the differences, but not present the entirety of current, copyrighted translations. See below for more complex explanation.


 * Translations are what is called in copyright law derivative works - an act of translation is itself creative and attracts copyright protection. It's arguably one of the main reasons that people are inspired to make new translations. Dorothy L. Sayers would have had little incentive to make her gorgeous translation of the decidedly public domain Divine Comedy if her translation were also public domain and not marketable. :) So, given that modern translations do receive copyright, the question comes down entirely to WP:NFC and fair use.


 * Our policy permits brief excerpts of copyrighted text for purposes of critical evaluation and comparison, which are certainly transformative. So, in discussing Sayers' translations, the authors of her biography write:


 * Woefully inadequate from a sourcing standpoint, that, but sound in terms of copyright. Here, the authors are excerpting from Sayers for the purposes of direct comparison and analysis.


 * Looking at the version of this article as it existed before it was flagged, zeroing in for example on the section on Presbyterian churches, the sole introductory text prior to the replication of the entire piece is "The Trinity Hymnal of 1990, published by the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, uses the following translation:" Such use does not seem to be transformative. I'm afraid that as an uninvolved administrator working copyright areas, I cannot see any defense for copying the entire translation. Certainly, we can support a nuanced evaluation that uses brief excerpts - ideally with better sourcing than in the Sayers article - of what changes exist and why.


 * I have not yet cleaned this article as I have asked editors how they would like to proceed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Installed proposed rewrite. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:48, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted. VWBot (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting question.svg No source found; copy-paste tag removed and cv-unsure tag placed at article talk. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:49, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * J. Ralph ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707775/bio. VWBot (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. This is a repeat - content was cleaned in July and restored almost immediately. Serious COI in this article. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:02, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Phantom World War II Divisions (United States) ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted from http://forums.wildbillguarnere.com/index.php?/topic/8604-phantom-wwii-divisions/page__p__145837#entry145837. VWBot (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:03, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Star Africa Commodities & Minerals Limited ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted from http://www.sea-enterprises.com/commodities-and-minerals. VWBot (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:13, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * DYWC ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted from http://www.dywc801am.com/history. VWBot (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:13, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Vamos a Celebrar ([ history] · [ last edit]) Close paraphrase. VWBot (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:15, 20 April 2013 (UTC)