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24 February 2014

Suspected copyright violations (bot reports)

SCV for 2014-02-24 Edit

2014-02-24 (Suspected copyright violations)

Denbigh High School, Jamaica (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.denbighhigh.org/index.php/about-us. MadmanBot reporting at 00:25, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oci architects (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.ociarchitects.com/profile.asp. MadmanBot reporting at 01:48, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Scott D. Shellenberger (edit, talk, history, links) — Baltimore County State's Attorney. MadmanBot reporting at 02:04, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ronne arnold (edit, talk, history, links) — http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/601856. MadmanBot reporting at 03:01, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Patel Brothers Grocery (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.patelbros.com/about-us.html. MadmanBot reporting at 03:15, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Echospawn Studios (edit, talk, history, links) — EchospawnStudios. MadmanBot reporting at 03:28, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Rabbi joshua saltzman (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.clal.org/clal_faculty_js.html. MadmanBot reporting at 03:31, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Faradarmani (edit, talk, history, links) — http://my.opera.com/erfaneh/blog/2011/10/14/introduction-to-faradarmani. MadmanBot reporting at 04:20, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Veronica Jacques (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.veronicajacques.com/. MadmanBot reporting at 04:41, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- No copyright concern. False positive. DES ^(talk) 21:10, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Boaz Bett (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.easpproject.org/p/about-easp.html. MadmanBot reporting at 04:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dust Warfare (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=2512. MadmanBot reporting at 05:10, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Gaurav Nanda (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gaurav-nanda/15/405/664. MadmanBot reporting at 06:23, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. James086 ^Talk 12:44, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Bon bon chicken (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.chinesefoodfans.com/chinese-food-recipes/chicken/bon-bon-chicken/. MadmanBot reporting at 06:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. James086 ^Talk 12:46, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Rt Rev Harry Sebastian (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.aiicdiocese.org/2011/07/my-testimony.html. MadmanBot reporting at 06:43, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Learnof (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) — http://www.learnof.com/sitescores/include-in-site/index.php. MadmanBot reporting at 07:10, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ric Ickard (edit, talk, history, links) — http://ricickard.weebly.com/index.html. MadmanBot reporting at 07:36, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Bombay Store (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.thebombaystore.com/pages/About-Us/pgid-145703.aspx. MadmanBot reporting at 08:04, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Peening Shot (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.engineersedge.com/manufacturing/shot_peening_media_review_9960.htm. MadmanBot reporting at 08:30, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirected. MER-C 07:08, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

S.P.I. Agency (edit, talk, history, links) — http://spiadetectiv.ro/engleza/presentation.php. MadmanBot reporting at 08:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Pili Copenhagen (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.linkedin.com/company/pili-copenhagen. MadmanBot reporting at 08:50, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Bulk Email Company in UK (edit, talk, history, links) — http://bulkemailbahrain.blogspot.com/. MadmanBot reporting at 08:52, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Krishi Karman Awards (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) — http://www.love4bihar.com/2013/01/krishi-karman-award-to-bihar-for-rice.html. MadmanBot reporting at 09:08, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Eradu Kanasu (edit, talk, history, links) — http://moviemaathu.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/eradu-kanasu/. MadmanBot reporting at 09:51, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redflag This needs further attention -- the creator is at CCI, the text was a copyvio but it was self-reverted. I don't think this is an isolated incident and I don't have the time to deal with this at the moment. MER-C 07:08, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Indeffed and CCI updated. MER-C 12:06, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Parvaiyin Marupakkam (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb5skpzvqcw. MadmanBot reporting at 11:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Heath Common songwriter (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.heathcommon.com/. MadmanBot reporting at 11:54, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wetecho Solutions (edit, talk, history, links) — http://wetecho.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/wetecho-solutions/. MadmanBot reporting at 12:20, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Alexander Sladkovsky (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.tatarstan-symphony.com/engl/alexander-sladkovsky.html. MadmanBot reporting at 12:32, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Boundary Oak School (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.boundaryoak.co.uk/history.htm. MadmanBot reporting at 12:39, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:05, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/RCC Pilotage Foundation (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) — http://www.rccpf.org.uk/about-us/rccpf-info. MadmanBot reporting at 12:40, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. James086 ^Talk 14:36, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
EP Solutions (edit, talk, history, links) — http://ep-solutions.ch/. MadmanBot reporting at 14:34, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
EQVAL (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.eqval.ch/company/. MadmanBot reporting at 14:37, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dave benett (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.themediaeye.com/getty.html. MadmanBot reporting at 15:38, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Soccer Stars for Haiti (edit, talk, history, links) — http://diarmuidsfirstblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/changing-the-world-one-facebook-group-at-a-time/. MadmanBot reporting at 15:39, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Tony woodhams (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.wikigrain.org/?req=Tony+Woodhams. MadmanBot reporting at 16:08, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Moss Sweedler (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.math.cornell.edu/m/People/Faculty/sweedler. MadmanBot reporting at 16:37, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. James086 ^Talk 14:38, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Alternative Ulster Covenant (edit, talk, history, links) — http://republican-news.org/current/news/2012/09/the_alternative_ulster_covenan.html. MadmanBot reporting at 17:17, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:30, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
William Zachary Collins (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.arts.iup.edu/facmus/zcollins/. MadmanBot reporting at 18:55, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Danish passion band (edit, talk, history, links) — DANISH KHAN PASSION BAND. MadmanBot reporting at 19:15, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Strevus (edit, talk, history, links) — http://crunchbase.com/company/strevus. MadmanBot reporting at 19:16, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/JCC Maccabi Sports Camp (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) — http://www.discoverjcc.com/jccs/ca/jcc-maccabi-sports-camp/. MadmanBot reporting at 19:57, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Mieke Mosmuller (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.occident.nl/Mieke-Mosmuller_1_35_21?LANGSET=3. MadmanBot reporting at 19:59, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Occident Publishers (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.occident.nl/?LANGSET=3. MadmanBot reporting at 20:07, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Runaway Dorothy (edit, talk, history, links) — http://runawaydorothy.com/. MadmanBot reporting at 20:19, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Neighborhood Credit Union (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) — http://www.linkedin.com/company/neighborhood-credit-union. MadmanBot reporting at 20:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Readaholic's Recommendations (edit, talk, history, links) — Readholic's Recommendations. MadmanBot reporting at 21:00, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
List of A.N.T Farm Crossovers (edit, talk, history, links) — Disney Crossover Fictions. MadmanBot reporting at 21:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Snap Surveys Limited (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.linkedin.com/company/snap-surveys. MadmanBot reporting at 21:36, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Northwest Airlines Flight 188 (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) — http://wikibin.org/articles/northwest-airlines-flight-188.html. MadmanBot reporting at 21:48, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Luk Bawan (edit, talk, history, links) — http://www.ikashmir.net/chanderbhat/lokbhawan.html. MadmanBot reporting at 22:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio version deleted, recreation clean. MER-C 12:06, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Curtis Zimmerman (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) — http://www.keynotespeakers.com/speaker_detail.php?speakerid=5042. MadmanBot reporting at 22:27, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Nat McIntosh (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) — http://www.tubaquartet.com/nat.html. MadmanBot reporting at 22:30, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
DJ Kiss (edit, talk, history, links) — http://about.me/kissthedeejay. MadmanBot reporting at 23:09, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. James086 ^Talk 14:40, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

I saw a Wikipedia page classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. I think doing so infringes copyright. I forgot which page it was, but Template:Infobox_book uses a parameter for the Dewey system and there may be other instances as well. Adding anything into Wikipedia requires conformance with a license that permits commercial reuse (except for fair use, which is probably inapplicable to this use.) While the Dewey system may be available for noncommercial use, commercial use of the Dewey system requires permission from the copyright licensor, OCLC. Therefore, use of the Dewey system on Wikipedia does not conform to the license, unless the licensor has granted the Wikimedia Foundation a license. Has that license been granted? Or has the Foundation decided that a license is unnecessary and that the Dewey system can be used to classify a number of project pages? (Permission would not be necessary if a project page explained how DDC worked and gave an example, but that does not seem to be the case generally in Wikipedia.) Nick Levinson (talk) 01:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Foundation hasn't decided anything, Nick Levinson. :) They are an online service provider and do not monitor or approve content. Those decisions are made by the individual volunteers who add and curate the material. They are the ones who chose to add it and the ones who will need to choose to remove it, unless the OCLC pursues official removal processes through the WMF (specifically, DMCA.) I don't think this is as much a copyright issue as it is a trademark issue - while [1] mentions that the system is copyrighted, it primarily discusses license to trademark the DDC. Classifications can be copyrighted and I don't doubt that the updated version of DDC is, but I'd be willing personally to lay some odds that the oldest systems are out of copyright. Even if they weren't, though, a single line in an infobox may not constitute a substantial taking. (Arguably, collectively they might, but they might also constitute fair use and fit the non-free content guideline in that case.) Since it's just a single line spread across multiple articles, I don't think that this is something that can be decided at this board. Especially since the major issue may be trademark, I think this may be more a matter for widespread consultation such as through an WP:RFC. It might also be something to ask for a meta:Wikilegal consultation on, to provide some context. If you'd like to request a legal intern to look into doing some research on the question, you can write to legalwikimedia.org or just let me know. If I switch into my work role, I can communicate that request for you. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:02, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Trademark is separate. This is a copyright issue, whether it is also a trademark issue or not. And I don't think we're infringing a trademark.
- I think the DDC is old enough that I likely agree that the earliest is in the public domain, but I haven't seen any use of a DDC number for a Wikipedia article or book cited in Wikipedia specifically refer to a public domain edition of DDC. More likely, all such uses are of recent DDC editions, thus under copyright.
- A common error regarding fair use, and an error I think you're making, is with the baseline for proportionality. If we copy a short article from The New York Times, because people think of an issue of the Times as large, we might think a little article is too small to require permission. But the Supreme Court has already ruled on that. Even from a large Sunday paper, and even if the article is short, the baseline for proportionality is not the large paper but only the short article, of which we would have copied 100%, so copying the whole article would be infringement even if the copying is only of a paragraph and a headline. On that principle, just one class number identified as a DDC number is all that is used for a normal book, so that is enough for the proportionality baseline, so that assigning as little as one DDC class number to one Wikipedia article is enough to require permission under copyright law. I don't think fair use applies. Fair use probably could apply if we were preparing an article about DDC and illustrated how it works by assigning a DDC number to one article as an example, but Wikipedia already goes beyond that.
- The Foundation is responsible for infringement in its projects, and if a license was acquired it would have been by the Foundation. If a volunteer acquired the license without the Foundation doing so, it's probably invalid beyond that volunteer's use, and that volunteer posting DDC content based on a license the Foundation does not have probably violates the terms for posting.
- If infringement is present and no volunteer deletes it, the Foundation is responsible for deleting it. Wikipedia is proactive in deleting infringements and needs to be; it cannot rely on DMCA alone, because DMCA is not the only remedy available to infringed-upon parties.
- I appreciate your offering to make contact through your work role, but I don't think that will be necessary. I don't mind an RfC, and if someone wants to prepare one soon I won't mind awaiting its outcome, but unless someone comes up with a legal argument why it's not infringement and not in violation of the terms under which edits are posted it will be appropriate to seek a way to resolve it. If I'm wrong about copyright law in this case, that will be fine.
- Nick Levinson (talk) 01:26, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yu Xiang Rou Si (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.chinesefoodfans.com/chinese-food-recipes/pork/fish-flavored-pork/. Neil916 (Talk) 07:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/MakoProgram (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://makoprogram.net/. (t) Josve05a (c) 16:39, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Acid Black Cherry (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.acidblackcherry.com/en/profile.html and http://www.tokyohive.com/article/2013/03/acid-black-cherry-announces-hokkaido-tohoku-tour. FylgjaOnika (talk) 22:02, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:58, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]