MyWiki:Copyright problems/2011 May 13

13 May 2011

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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• 2010 California Green Building Standards Code (history · last edit) At least eight sections were each copy-and-pasted from a different web page. This article looks like it was created by copy-and-pasting from a whole bunch of different pages. OCNative (talk) 04:00, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

• This article is copied and pasted from several different sources, chiefly public domain California sites. One site I am curious about is http://www.wbdg.org/resources/cwmgmt.php as the author is a U.S. Army Corp employee. Because it is the work of a U.S. federal employee, does that make it public domain? The article creator is re-writing the article at a temp page. See the article's talk.--NortyNort (Holla) 09:52, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

• First, addressing the meta question: only if it was written in the course of his duties. Federal employees are not prohibited from holding copyright in content they create on their own time, even if it relates to their area of expertise. They are not then acting as agents of the government. See [1]. Off to look at the issues. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:50, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:36, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
  Boy, this one was painful. Very little of the proposed rewrite was usable. I hope I've got everything. Since I found some content in the untagged section copied from non-PD sources, it may have been safer to delete it all and start over. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:36, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

• Yea, it looks like you had a hard time with that one. Thanks for the explanation. I am guessing he didn't write it in the course of his duties. Otherwise, the Army Corps would've published it first and it would've been courtesy of.--NortyNort (Holla) 09:26, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

• CADDS 5 (history · last edit) from http://www.ptc.com/products/cadds5. The vast majority of this page is exactly the same as that of the URLMrmatiko (talk) 08:54, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --NortyNort (Holla) 09:30, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
  

• Mat Hennek (history · last edit) from http://www.mat-hennek.com/biography.html. Toto Azéro ^{Follow the guide !} 11:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC)