Talk:Southwest Amazon moist forests
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Klbrain in topic Copyright
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Copyright
editI just cut-and-paste this article from a section of Southwestern Amazonian moist forests and it turns out it was mostly copied from [1]. However, in 2008, the author, World Wildlife Fund, posted the same content on The Encyclopedia of Earth at [2] under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 license. This might make it OK to keep, but I'm not sure. Miguel.v (talk) 17:52, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
- I'm going to blank this as a possible copyvio through [[WP:CP], and have a second opinion given. I don't think the material is copyrighted (as the copyright notice at the CSBot source is in 2001, though the Encyclopedia of Earth page was written in 2008), but I'm not quite sure. Thanks, Acather96 (talk) 06:23, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Here's where things get complicated: the content was added to Wikipedia in 2006, two years before it was added to the Encyclopedia of Earth. We cannot presume it was placed here by somebody who had authorization to add it, since it was previously published at the WWF website. And we don't know, without a painstaking search, whether there are any differences between our text and theirs. So what I did was start over by importing the Encyclopedia of Earth text, wikifying it and dropping some relevant pictures around, with necessary attribution. That way, we get to keep the content, and there is no question about the copyright. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:15, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Looks good! Thanks, Moonriddengirl. Miguel.v (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- I've just redirected Southwestern Amazonian moist forests here, on the grounds that that page still held the material of questionable copyright status. The current Southwest Amazon moist forests looks good! Klbrain (talk) 12:00, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
- Looks good! Thanks, Moonriddengirl. Miguel.v (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Here's where things get complicated: the content was added to Wikipedia in 2006, two years before it was added to the Encyclopedia of Earth. We cannot presume it was placed here by somebody who had authorization to add it, since it was previously published at the WWF website. And we don't know, without a painstaking search, whether there are any differences between our text and theirs. So what I did was start over by importing the Encyclopedia of Earth text, wikifying it and dropping some relevant pictures around, with necessary attribution. That way, we get to keep the content, and there is no question about the copyright. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:15, 11 April 2011 (UTC)