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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:Slashdot tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So if I steal something but don't sell it it's ok, but if a gang steals the same thing and sells it, it's NOT OK? /me is confused

  2. Apologies by Sockatume · · Score: -1, Redundant

    On Soviet Wikipedia, your textbooks plagiarise articles!

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    No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
  3. How to make profit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    1. Buy a computer
    2. Order up cheap ass DSL
    3. Plagiarize wikipedia
    4. ??????
    5. PROFIT!!!

  4. Re:So is it plagiarism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia quotes YOU!