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Plagiarizing Wikipedia For Profit

Posted by kdawson on from the ip-is-on-the-other-foot dept.

An anonymous reader sends word of a dustup involving the publisher John Wiley and Sons and Wikipedia. Two pages from a Wiley book, Black Gold: The New Frontier in Oil for Investors, consist of a verbatim copy from the English Wikipedia article on the Khobar Towers bombing. This is the publisher that touched off a fair use brouhaha earlier this year when they threatened to sue a blogger who had reproduced a chart and a table (fully attributed) from one of their journals.

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  1. Re:How are they going to claim... by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is an interesting aspect of free license law that hasn't really been delved into yet.

    You're so right! Noone on the wider internet or even slashdot has ever considered this!

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  2. Re:Copy/Paste needs help by ScrewMaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Hi! It looks like you're trying to steal someone else's intellectual property! Would you like me to a. attribute it properly for you or b. adjust it so your theft isn't so blatantly obvious?"

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  3. The solution by niceone · · Score: 4, Funny

    John Wiley and Sons could just edit the wikipedia article to be different. Problem solved.

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