Hopefully the internal dispute on-wiki is now resolved. Newyorkbrad
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Scott MacDonald <[email protected] > wrote: > I discovered the NPG's infringement after the article [[John Michael > Wright]] was slated for TFA (due in an hour or two). As I say, I wrote 95% > of it. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Errors_in_the_summar > y_of_today.27s_or_tomorrow.27s_featured_article > > and > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Michael_Wright#CopyVio.3F > > > The joke is now on me as people actually want to pull the TFA because of a > perception that I violated the NPG's copyright. To say I'm pissed off it to > put it mildly. > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott MacDonald > Sent: 20 March 2011 20:54 > To: 'English Wikipedia' > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPG copyright irony > > I guess I was mainly enjoying the irony that people so prickly about their > own asserted copyrights can be so slapdash with material that is someone > else's copyright. They threw bricks at Derrick, now it appears they are > inhabiting a glass-house. > > I doubt I'm much motivated to do anything about it beyond chuckle with a > little righteous indignation, but if someone else wants either to contact > them and ask them to acknowledge Wikipedia and the correct license, or to > use the whole thing to throw a publicity brick back at them, they are very > welcome. I will chuckle more. > > Any way you look at it, they have (probably carelessly) asserted copyright > over material that they certainly do not have copyright over, and (probably > inadvertently) violated my rights and those of Wikipedia. Given the > circumstances, that's somewhat funny. > > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
