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[edit] Copyright infringement

An advertising feature run in The West Australian edition 7 April 2006 used content from this webpage verbatim. After inquiring with the featured organisation (Main Roads Western Australia), The West Australian were confirmed as authors of the advertising feature. A complaint was submitted by me via the e-mail feedback on their website on 17 April 2006. It was as follows:

Dear The West:

I was pleased to see that an advertising feature about the Roe Highway ran in your Metropolitan edition Friday 7 April 2006. The advertising feature used content from Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/), the free encyclopedia. This is the sort of reuse that those who contribute to Wikipedia, as I do, wish to promote.

However, I’d like to point out that when you use content from Wikipedia you ought to include a link back to the source Wikipedia article as is suggested on Wikipedia’s copyrights page, which is located at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights.

Specifically, the advertising featured used content from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_Highway#History. I was a contributor to this article, and text that I wrote appeared verbatim in the advertising feature. Since it appears without attribution to me, or a link to the Wikipedia history, or the text of the GFDL under which I released my contributions, the existence of this page violates my copyright, as well as those of all other contributors.

Please in the future provides acknowledgments to all parts of articles/advertising features authored by your publication that use Wikipedia content verbatim. Thank you.

Sincerely, Ian Peters Ian peters 15:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

This is rather interesting, even a little amusing I must say. They could have at least linked back or even cited there sources. - Boochan 06:00, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Very observant Ian and well handled. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to mention this on the Australian Wikipedians' notice board. Nachoman-au 10:08, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Is there a copy of the West Australian's story anywhere?? pfctdayelise (translate?) 02:15, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

The West Australians site is just a plug for its online edition. If I knew earlier I probably could have gotten the article, but I'm guessing papers backdated that old have being thrown out now (I have The West on home delivery)... - Boochan 13:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)