Wikinews talk:Copyright

Mirror

Brujula.net is mirroring Wikinews articles with the notice "Wikinews content is not copyrighted but licensed under Creative Commons Attribition 2.5 Licence Brujula.Net © 1995 - 2007". There is no link to the license text. See for instance http://www.brujula.net/english/noticias/wiki/Arsenal_defeat_Manchester_United_at_Emirates_Stadium.html . I don't know how this is generally dealt with here. Superm401 | Talk 04:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I've just managed to convince the site owner to mention the licence, he was also using Wikipedia content without a GFDL-licence and decided to take the content down. I'll send him a short email about it.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

GFDL

I think the text on the project page should explicitly state that GFDL, the licence Wikipedia is using, is incompatible. Otherwise I am sure it will happen again that users copy text from wikipedia in here.--Grace E. Dougle 15:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

triviality

Is there a lower bound on complexity for copyrighted material? for example, I copied the template for sic from wikipedia, the full contents of which are: <sup class="noprint">[sic]</sup> which in my opinion is uncopyrightable, but an editor warned me that I needed to get permission from all editors on wikipedia before I do this. Is this true? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Demiquave (talk • contribs) 22:35, 22 June 2007

Why not upgrade to CC BY 4.0?

Which issue holds up such a potential upgrade? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:46, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Have you seen the conversation happening at the water cooler? Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 13:41, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Pages to update when license is updated from 2.5 to 4.0

Per Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy#Update_of_license it has been decided that Wikinews should update to 4.0 but that it would be good if all Wikinews update so it is still possible to share/translate in the future.

Once Wikinews is ready to do the change the pages below should be updated:

1. MediaWiki:Copyright Not done (elevated privs needed)
2. MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning Not done (elevated privs needed)
3. MediaWiki:Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js Not done (elevated privs needed)
4. Wikinews:Social media Not done (elevated privs needed)
5. Template:Translated Wikinews Not done (elevated privs needed)
6. Wikinews:Copyright Not done (See comment below re: articles created before XXX)
7. Template:Printedition Not done (See comment below re: articles created before XXX)
8. Template:PD-Article Not done (See comment below re: articles created before XXX)
9. Category:Public_domain_articles Not done (See comment below re: articles created before XXX)
10. Wikinews:Global Networking/All Not done (see notes below re:Poland)
11. Template:PrinteditionLicense Done (Needs sighted. Uses {{cc-by-2.5}})
12. Template:Copyvio Done (needs sighted)
13. Template:Imagevio Done (Needs sighted)
14. Wikinews:Template messages/Image namespace Done (No addtnl change needed.)
15. Wikinews:Audio guide Done
16. Wikinews:Audio Wikinews/About Done
17. Wikinews:Audio Wikinews/Template/Full Report Done
18. Wikinews:Audio Wikinews Done
19. Wikinews:Audio_Wikinews/Cheat_Sheet Done (audio pages often use {{cc-by-2.5}}. Must change post-update)
20. Wikinews:Audio Wikinews/News Briefs/Show/Templates Done
21. Wikinews:What Wikinews is not Done
22. Wikinews:Spread_Wikinews Done

Also

1. MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning says cc-by-sa-4.0 Not done (elevated privs needed)
2. MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright says cc-by-sa-3.0. Not done (elevated privs needed)

So it should be clarified if they should be changed or if that apply to all non-article edits.

You are very welcome to add more pages if you find any. --MGA73 (talk) 15:53, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Some of those pages will require elevated privileges to edit (all of the MediaWiki links). When the time comes, I can modify as many of the others as possible. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:02, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

I think we should create a {{Current CC Version}} or similar template that we use to replace all existing mentions of the current version. That way in future upgrades of the license, we can change one location rather than repeating this exercise. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC); edited 16:27, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

@Michael.C.Wright: I think that it is a super good idea. If that page is protected you can edit all the other pages now. And using that template it is very easy to see where the current version is listed.

But I think some places need to mention that "Articles created before <date> is licensed 2.5 and articles after that is 4.0.

If the change is done August 1, 2024 for example then that date could be published on all other language versions of Wikinews and then all that want can change at the same date. And chosing a date a bit out in the future gives all wikis a chance to prepare (find out where to change). --MGA73 (talk) 18:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

In the article Wikinews:Global_Networking/All, the section for Poland mentions a specific license and links to a page on the Poland wikinews that is no longer there. Given that we're hoping all other language wikinews sites upgrade, how should we hand the Poland section of that page? Just remove all that verbiage like the other languages? Is the Networking page still useful? The last meaningful edit was seventeen years ago. I just removed spam from it that was eleven years old, so I doubt anyone has paid much attention to it recently. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 19:24, 26 May 2024 (UTC)