Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 July 30

30 July 2011

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M.S. Kenora (history · last edit) from http://www.mskenora.com/pages/theboat.html. See talk page. Brad (talk) 01:58, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No copyright concern. Article G12's and recreated 2 days later as a clean stub. --NortyNort (Holla) 09:45, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Stowe Missal (history · last edit) from http://www.ria.ie/library/special-collections/manuscripts/stow-missal.aspx http://www2.gol.com/users/stuart/celtmssl.html CCI: MacLeinin. MER-C 06:30, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --NortyNort (Holla) 10:06, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ballaghaderreen Cathedral (history · last edit) from Galloway, Peter (1992). The Cathedrals of Ireland. The Institute of Irish Studies. ISBN 0-85389-452-3; http://www.ballaghaderreen.com/cath.htm http://www.discoverireland.ie/Arts-Culture-Heritage/ballaghaderreen-cathedral/16441 CCI: MacLeinin. MER-C 06:34, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I have cleaned this and notified the French Wikipedia of the issue, since they have translated the article for their project. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:30, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne (history · last edit) from http://www.cloynediocese.ie/cathedral/. Copyvio introduced [1], later copied to the new article. CCI: MacLeinin. MER-C 06:39, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --NortyNort (Holla) 09:40, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gazette Building (Little Rock, Arkansas) (history · last edit) and User:Tdmcg82/Sandbox (history · last edit) from http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2344 http://web.archive.org/web/20080604142942/http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/214934/ http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2117 at least. Foundational. MER-C 09:38, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Blood-C (history · last edit) from http://www.blood-c.jp/blpedia/index.html. Author claims that they are a translation from the official source.[2] —Farix (t | c) 14:59, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Per Wikipedia's guidlines for translation, "Because Wikipedia licensing requires attribution, the translation source must be credited to avoid copyright violation." The extremely brief translations in this section are original text provided by myself and other contributors, and have been credited to their source, which is a resource opened to the web free of cost by the original publishers. Being that the source is not in English, text has not been replicated verbatim. In certain instances, text contains content from other Wikipedia entries. Content in this section is provided on Wikipedia for informational purposes, and is not intended to compromise market value of the subject of copyright. Per Wikipedia's guidelines on inclusion of text from other sources, text has not been copy-pasted verbatim; text is provided in original language that did not exist in the source, and is thus not a close paraphrase; the source is both cited and linked. Clarification of translation-related copyright guidelines would be appreciated. -- Fallacies (talk) 16:42, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that refers to translating from one Wikipedia article to another; it describes how to avoid license violation. Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, translations are a derivative work and the right to authorize them is reserved to the copyright owner of the original. In order to translate a copyrighted work into another language, we must have permission, I'm afraid. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:23, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since text is English provided originally and nonverbatim by editors with citation to the Japanese, wouldn't this fall under generic fair use for paraphrased content? The translated text does not hold strictly to the Japanese wording. -- Fallacies (talk) 16:20, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean; are you saying that these are not translations as indicated in the edit summary? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:27, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Even using WP:NFCC as an excuse to include translated contact, it would not pass the "contextual significance" requirement as it does not significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, nor does its omission be detrimental to that understanding. This is just a list or random terms, most of which can already be easily understood in the plot summary. —Farix (t | c) 16:50, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:32, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Elisabeth Croft (history · last edit) from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elisabeth-croft-602063.html. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:47, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More at Dotty Cotton, GA. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:41, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I cleaned Croft and another editor rewrote Cotton. I spot checked a few other refs in Cotton and it looks OK. --NortyNort (Holla) 10:25, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MT63 (history · last edit) from http://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/MFSK/datmodes2.pdf. KarikaSlayer (talk) 00:40, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've relisted this because the contributor was not notified. I am not able to quickly exclude copyvio; the first substantial change I've found moves the content away from what exists at that site: [3]. But this doesn't exclude backwardscopy, either, as it might have occurred prior to that date. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:21, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. According to the properties' metadata, that PDF was created on 6 April 2004 by "lynette", so it predates the article. After an adventure through several mirrors of this article and even a book (2007) with the text, I found that much of the article was copied from the old MT63 official website that was taken down a few years back. An April 2005 archive can be found here. Text was taken from sub-pages as well. --NortyNort (Holla) 11:37, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]