Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2013 October 23

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Unique Identification Authority of India ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from needs deeper checking, including http://moneylife.in/article/aadhaar-the-number-that-makes-a-nation-niradhaar/34718.html. This is one example source, I think there are a few more, will search soon. I haven't notified any contributors as I'm not sure who introduced this. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  09:18, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
 * On procedural issues. This is an important article for India. User:SpacemanSpiff neglected to a) specify the offending portions b) Notify contributors c) Blocked the entire article instead of only the offending sections. The bulk of this article seems sourced from the Report of the Parliamentary Committee on UIDAI (not contributed by me), copyright status of which seems public/reusable since from 2005 all Govt documents statutorily disseminated in "Right to Information" have been held to be in public domain and out of copyright.Notabede (talk) 02:32, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Whether it's an important article or not is irrelevant when it pertains to copyright violations. As I've mentioned there are numerous vios and I found it difficult to figure out who contributed what; rather than wikilawyer the fact that you didn't get notified (and it took you less than an hour to figure out that the article was tagged) you should stop adding copyvios. Finally, RTI does not invalidate copyright law, public access is not public domain. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  05:47, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * An important article gets blanked for days because there is a backlog of clerks and OTRS volunteers, when the disputed text, if any, could have been excised. When you identified that link, it would have taken less than a minute to identify identify contributor and inform him. Procedures are for everybody's benefit (unless you believe that rules exist to be broken). Under Indian Copyright law (yes Wikipedia servers are within the US and US copyright law applies) information disseminated (where the copyright is held by the Indian Government) is deemed to place it in public domain and can be reproduced by anyone without restriction. This has been upheld by the Central Information Commission, several High Courts and also the Supreme Court.Notabede (talk) 11:45, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * No. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  13:04, 27 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:40, 16 November 2013 (UTC) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:40, 16 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Chris Mercogliano ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite), main section of the article, from http://www.chrismercogliano.com/about-2/, notwithstanding the transposition of the sentences from that page. —Largo Plazo (talk) 15:19, 23 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:43, 14 November 2013 (UTC)