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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. I NEED THE SHITEATING COPYPASTA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    PLS ADVISE

  2. Re:Like I always say by nietsch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For those not yet quite awake: look up, find the same text, think, it's funny!

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    This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
  3. Huh. by Aaron_Pike · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I guess it's true that the preacher preaches loudest his own sins.

  4. Re:Slashdot tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would the idiot who modded the parent down please explain their justification? You can do it as anon if you want.