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ATTENTION: For blatant copyright infringements:

If there is a clean revision in the page history, revert to it.
If not, request speedy deletion with {{db-copyvio|url=http://www.WhereItCameFrom.tld/}}
If you are not sure who originally authored the material, list it here instead for investigation.

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Shortcuts

This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems on Misplaced Pages, including pages and images which are suspected to be copyright violations. To request examination before including questionable content in an article, see Misplaced Pages:Requested copyright examinations.

Copyright owners

If you believe Misplaced Pages is infringing your copyright, you may request immediate removal of the copyright violation. Alternatively, you may contact Misplaced Pages's designated agent under the terms of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act.

Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Misplaced Pages

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If you submitted work to Misplaced Pages which you had previously published (especially online), and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work, while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. It is sufficient to either:

Make a note permitting reuse under the GFDL at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en at wikimedia dot org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation.

What's copyrighted?

Copyright exists automatically upon creation in a tangible form. An author does not need to apply for or even claim copyright for a copyright to exist. Only an explicit statement that the material is in the public domain, licensed with the GFDL, or is otherwise compatible with the GFDL, makes material reusable under current policy, unless it is inherently in the public domain due to age or source.

What about fair use?

Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only with full attribution and only when the purpose is to comment on or criticize the text quoted.

If you see an article somewhere else which was copied from Misplaced Pages without attribution, visit the GFDL compliance page or meta:Non-compliant site coordination.

Purge server cache if recent edits are not visible.

Plagiarism that does not infringe copyright

Misplaced Pages will naturally refer to and include some material that comes from outside sources. This material may be in the public domain, may be included under a fair use argument, or it may be under a license compatible with the license used on Misplaced Pages, the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Examples of public-domain works include text and images from United States Government publications, and older works—such as the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica—that are no longer, or never were, covered by copyright. Some further examples are at Category:Attribution templates.

Even when material is not covered by copyright, it is still important to state its origin, including its authors or creators. Failure to include the origin of a work is misleading and also makes it more difficult for readers and editors to refer to the material's source. It may also violate the terms of the GFDL.

Material that is plagiarised but which does not violate copyright does not need to be removed from Misplaced Pages if it can be properly sourced. Add appropriate source information to the article wherever possible, or move unsourced material to an article's talk page until sources can be found.

If an editor has copied text or figures into Misplaced Pages without proper attribution, politely refer him to Misplaced Pages:Verifiability, Misplaced Pages:Citing sources, and/or Help:Citations quick reference. Editors who have difficulties or questions about this guidance can be referred to the Help Desk. Editors engaged in ongoing plagiarism who do not respond to polite requests may be blocked from editing.

Repeated copyright violations

Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing to protect the project, see 17 United States Code 512.

Instructions

Material whose presence on Misplaced Pages infringes copyright (ie. the material is not Public Domain, licensed under the GFDL or specifically licensed to Misplaced Pages on suitable terms) should, as a general rule, be removed.

Blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:

Material was copied from another website which does not have a license compatible with Misplaced Pages;
There is no non-infringing content in the page history worth saving.
The text on Misplaced Pages really is an infringement of another source (Misplaced Pages has numerous mirrors — Make sure we're copying someone else, not the other way around)
Uploader does not assert permission (for images: no assertion aside from tags) or fair use, or the assertion is questionable

After notifying the uploading editor, add one of these to the page:

{{db-copyvio | url=insert URL of source here}}

{{db-copyvio | describe non-web source here}}

An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to delete it or not. You should not blank the page in this instance.

Article? Image?

Revert the page to a non-copyrighted version if you can
The infringing text will remain in the page history for archival reasons unless the copyright holder asks the Wikimedia Foundation to remove it.
However, if all revisions have copyright problems:
- Blank the page and replace the text with one of:
  {{subst:copyvio | url=insert URL here}}
  
  {{subst:copyvio | identify non-web source here}}
- Go to today's section and add
  * {{subst:article-cv | PageName}} from ~~~~

to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. (This text can be copied from the top of the template after substituting it and the page name and url will be filled for you)

Add the text following Maintenance use only at the bottom of the now-blanked article to the talk page of the contributor of the copyrighted material.
You're done!

Add one of the following to the image description page:
{{imagevio | url=insert URL here}}~~~~

{{imagevio | identify non-web source here}}~~~~
Go to today's section and add:

* {{subst:image-cv | Image:ImageName}} from ~~~~

to the bottom of the list. Put the image's name in place of "ImageName".

Add the following to the image uploader's talk page:

{{subst:idw-cp | Image:ImageName}}

You're done!

Pages should stay listed for a minimum of 7 days before a decision is made. All pages tagged with {{copyvio}} are placed in Category:Possible copyright violations.

Alternatives to deletion

In addition to nominating potential copyright infringements for deletion, you may:

Rewrite the article, excluding copyrighted text. This is done on a temporary page at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the original, copyright-infringing version can be deleted by an administrator and the rewrite copied over. If the original turns out to be non-infringing, these two can be merged.
Write to the owner and Ask for permission. Check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). Also see Misplaced Pages:Example requests for permission, Misplaced Pages:Confirmation of permission.

Instructions for special cases

Category:Unfree images: These may be listed, if indeed they are not available under a free license or a reasonable fair use rationale. Note that some of these may not actually be unfree images, but rather images which are released under multiple licenses.

Category:Images with missing copyright information: These should be replaced and many should be listed for deletion. Those that are currently orphaned can be listed on images for deletion.

Non-free licenses
- Category:Non-commercial use only images
- And any image under a non-commercial or no-derivatives license.
These images are available for use on Misplaced Pages, but are not released under the GFDL. According to Jimbo Wales, we cannot use images that are not GFDL and are not usable under a fair use rationale. Images from these categories may be listed here, but be sure that the image is not also available under a free license, and that a fair use claim cannot be made.

Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that an article contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you aren't sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place {{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}} on the article's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the article version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.)

Instructions for administrators

Listings should be checked and processed by administrators after 7 days. See Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems/Advice for admins for some help.

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