In the news on the English Wikipedia, Eli Manning was named most valuable player for Super Bowl XLVI. TMZ.com, a top 500 website and one of the most popular gossip websites in the world[1], is using English Wikipedia content without license or attribution for almost all of its immense biography database.
A simple rundown using some random Super Bowl related bios, no inline citations for referential comparisons and I don't have the time to find the exact diff, but they exist: American football players: *Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Manning> *TMZ: <http://www.tmz.com/person/eli-manning/> *Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brady> *TMZ: <http://www.tmz.com/person/tom-brady/> *Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Welker> *TMZ: <http://www.tmz.com/person/wes-welker/> Madonna was the halftime show. *Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)> *TMZ: <http://www.tmz.com/person/Madonna/> Kelly Clarkson sang the American national anthem: *Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Clarkson> *TMZ: <http://www.tmz.com/person/kelly-clarkson/> At the bottom of every single TMZ biography, I'm certain of which almost all are ripped from Wikipedia, is this: © 2012 EHM Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. Thank you for your time. 1. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tmz.com -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
