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Copyright violations

Please do not add text cut and pasted from Australian government sites into Wikipedia. The Australian government does not release its material into the public domain; so text cannot be added verbatim (or slightly remixed) from their sites. --Peta 05:46, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am working for NT Government and we decided to use our material for Wikipedia!

That may be, but from how I'm interpreting the government copyright notice ( http://www.environment.gov.au/about/copyright.html ) it cannot be included on Wikipedia because it is not freely licensed text. I quote: "You may download, store in cache, display, print and reproduce the material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice, or links to it where they appear) for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation." Because Wikipedia's material may be downloaded and freely used in commercial works, copying the material from the government website fails the "non-commercial" part of the government license. Any text submitted must be freely licensed for use under the GFDL license. I will say I'm not an expert, but if you really want this imformation added, and want the freedom to do so in the future, I would suggest getting in touch with an administrator (or preferrably someone even higher up) and speak to them about what is required to prove the text can and has been released freely into the public domain.

However, I *really* am liking the images you submitted, and when I find the time to set aside, I plan on going through and adding what I can to the article. It may also be feasible to paraphrase or otherwise summarize parts of the website text and use that in the article (so it isn't a direct copy and paste; just make sure the information is properly sourced and cited). Again, this would be something best discussed with administration. Hopefully this helps you out! -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 23:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All material and all texts provided for Wikipedia can be included on Wikipedia. If you got any question please contact webmaster@tourismnt.com.au I wouldn't add it if I didn't got the permisson to use it!

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 ::That may be, but from how I'm interpreting the government copyright notice ( http://www.environment.gov.au/about/copyright.html ) it cannot be included on Wikipedia because it is not freely licensed text.  I quote: "You may download, store in cache, display, print and reproduce the material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice, or links to it where they appear) for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation."  Because Wikipedia's material may be downloaded and freely used in commercial works, copying the material from the government website fails the "non-commercial" part of the government license.  Any text submitted ''must'' be freely licensed for use under the GFDL license.  I will say I'm not an expert, but if you really want this imformation added, and want the freedom to do so in the future, I would suggest getting in touch with an administrator (or preferrably someone even higher up) and speak to them about what is required to prove the text can and has been released freely into the public domain.
-::However, I *really* am liking the images you submitted, and when I find the time to set aside, I plan on going through and adding what I can to the article.  It may also be feasible to paraphrase or otherwise summarize parts of the website text and use that in the article (so it isn't a direct copy and paste; just make sure the information is properly sourced and cited).  Again, this would be something best discussed with administration.  Hopefully this helps you out! -- [[User:Huntster|<span style="font-size:13px; font-variant:small-caps; text-decoration:none;">Huntster</span>]] <sup style="font-size:9px;">[[User_talk:Huntster|T]] • [[Special:Emailuser/Huntster|@]] • [[Special:Contributions/Huntster|C]]</sup> 23:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
+::However, I *really* am liking the images you submitted, and when I find the time to set aside, I plan on going through and adding what I can to the article.  It may also be feasible to paraphrase or otherwise summarize parts of the website text and use that in the article (so it isn't a direct copy and paste; just make sure the information is properly sourced and cited).  Again, this would be something best discussed with administration.  Hopefully this helps you out! -- [[User:Huntster|<span style="font-size:13px; font-variant:small-caps; text-decoration:none;">Huntster</span>]] <sup style="font-size:9px;">[[User_talk:Huntster|T]] • [[Special:Emailuser/Huntster|@]] • [[Special:Contributions/Huntster|C]]</sup> 23:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
+:: All material and all texts provided for Wikipedia can be included on Wikipedia. If you got any question please contact webmaster@tourismnt.com.au I wouldn't add it if I didn't got the permisson to use it!