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There are different kinds of favorites. You have your miserable favorites and your happy favorites. I can't pick just one [song]. And he hugged me, gently. So, he was the 'great dark wing'. And, ah, it was about everything that was going on at that particular time, too, but he was the, the reason for the, you know, the beginning of it. General Comment Sara [is my most personal song] It's about myself, and what all of us in Fleetwood Mac were going through at the time.
The true version of that song is 16 minutes long. It's a saga with many verses people haven't heard. The original Sara was 16 minutes long. Like about nine more verses than what you hear on the record. It got edited down to 14 minutes, down to 11 minutes, down to 9 minutes, down to 7 minutes, down to 4 minutes and 40 seconds. I was to the point where I went, 'Is the word Sara even going to be left in the song? I've had more fun writing that I remember the night I wrote it.
She likes to think it's completely about her, but it's really not completely about her. It's about me, about her, about Mick, about Fleetwood Mac. Its about all of us at that point. There's little bits about each one of us in that song and when it had all the other verses it really covered a vast bunch of people. Sara was the kind of song you could fall in love with, because I fell in love with it He did [build the house].
And I was in it before he finished it. It's a very special name to me. I love singing it on stage.
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It's the absolute delight of my night. There's so much in Sara. Just don't tell me I didn't write the words I wrote. Most people think that the other party will settle out of court, but she picked the wrong songwriter. To call me a thief about my first love, my songs, that's going too far. General Comment I have been a Fleetwood Mac fan ever since my mom introduced me to her Dance album when she went to the concert with my aunt. General Comment I do know that a fan wrote a poem about her daughter Sara and that is how Stevie came up with the song. The writer sued her, BUT she had never copyrighted the poem herself, so it was considered fair game.
May not have been nice, but it was not illegal. General Comment This song seems to be about a woman, Sara, who lives by her ideals even though she has grown up. The narrator of the song this is supposed to be Stevie, I think admires this quality about her, and does not want the disappointments that come from life, such as a relationship, to ruin this part of her personality.
General Comment The reason I think this is about a woman who is grown up is the verse that says, "And he was just like a great dark wing Within the wings of a storm I think I had met my match, he was singing And undoing the laces Undoing the laces" This sounds to me like meeting a man who thinks she is the perfect match and undoing the laces - well to me that sounds like a sexual metaphor.
I'm not quite sure whether Sara is supposed to be a child, grown up, or in-between, but the sexual metaphor is what made me think this is about someone coming of age. Rate These Lyrics. Log in now to add this track to your mixtape! Every page has a Copyright citations section at the bottom. The next line is " Click here for original article: The article name links back to Wikipedia. I haven't examined beyond the one page. Acknowledges Wikipedia authorship. No link to original article.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article" the actual name of the article does not appear. There is no link to the original article or the GFDL and they do not include the history section. All instances of Wikipedia are changed to AskFactMaster. Now links to GFDL at gnu. Emailed support AT top-greetings. GFDL violation became apparent after a suspected copyright violation discussion, with evidence on the Birdsong digital radio channel talk page.
None -- tghe retford talk Uses the beginning of the Wikipedia Troubleshooting article on a page showing a troubleshooting video. Site links back to specific Wikipedia articles in a few cases, but most Wikipedia links are generic, and all together absent in some articles. Notice appears licensing all contributed content under GFDL, with link to http: All rights reserved. Seems cooperative, hopefully should get to full compliance soon. Barajului nr. Hosted on IP address Standard letter emailed to office AT azplayers.
I've thanked them for doing that promptly, and have explained that they should also mention the GFDL, and have provided sample text. From the email they sent me, I don't think there should be a problem sorting it out. Displays Wikipedia trademark on the page http: The site uses an image I created, licensed under the GPL. I included links to the licenses at gnu. Maintainer appears to have joined a discussion at Talk: I referred him to Wikipedia: Also, it calls itself "Wikipedia", as seen at Google's translation of their homepage , revealing a possibly illegal usage of the trademark.
Copies certain articles about locations in Bangladesh without any attribution whatsoever. COM, fax: Sent standard violation notice to info AT barrystickets. COM Sent followup. Basic Famous People says both "It is believed that all material on this web site is in the public domain. The Famous People site modifies the articles, removing external links and references and changing formatting. Basic Famous People copies biographical articles. Basic Celebrations copies our date pages such as February It has only a copyright notice.
Sent standard violation letter to whois address and address given on site. MRG verified copyvio. Sandy Georgia Talk Linked post copies some text from beverage can —see article talk page section linked below. No relevant mention of Wikipedia, copyright, or licensing anywhere on the site. No contact made. I first edited the article in question today, so the post is not a derivative work of any work of mine.
I have left a note on the article talk page: Beverage can A blog post on "Best In Packaging". All Rights Reserved. Online form: Wholesale copy of Big Mac index from [22] or earlier. Standard violation letter sent. Second letter sent. Houses Wikipedia articles under their "academic study guide" without acknowledging Wikipedia or listing the content licensing. Mentions and links to GFDL. Mentions Wikipedia. The link does not reach the original page nor Wikipedia itself at least without JavaScript. None -- WB This is a mirror as of June 23, that has apparently had minor forking since then.
However, almost all instances of Wikipedia have been changed, even in people's talk comments. This makes it a modified version, and these modifications have not been specifically mentioned on page history. Also, the GFDL specifically states that "The author s and publisher s of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
With images, it also says "This document originates in his first or later version from the English Wikipedia. The list of previous authors is available here: This text falls under the same license GFDL. Additions to biocrawler starting from Sent letter requesting correction of these issues. It ranted about things like "Biocrawler being a fork, you can edit pages yourself. Said he would fix it if I demonstrated consensus here that my advice was correct. I referred him to Wikipedia talk: Mirrors and forks Weird. Links to original en. Website is now a search-spammer and no longer mirrors wikipedia content; last wikipedia mirror found archived from 8 February at [23].
Site does copy wholesale biography articles from English wikipedia. It does not provide information of the source of the articles, it does not give attribution to authors or link to wikipedia history page, the site does not acknowledge that content sourced from wikipedia is licensed under GFDL. Links to GFDL and mentions individual Wikipedia article, but does not directly link to them or include history section. No information about articles being copied from Wikipedia, imposes its own weird license called Biolicense.
The site states: It is a license that tries to protect information and knowledge from being exclusively owned by limited number of classes, races, and economic groups in the world. It also aims to maximize human creativity and entrepreneurship. About The site seems to be a part of some spammer's link farm. See its links to other sites.
There is a notice that says the content is from Wikipedia and links to a local copy of the GFDL part of a copyright page. Wikipedia is linked to the main Wikipedia URL backwards gro. A javascript function reverses the link if you have JS enabled. There is also a link to another section on the copyright page that is meant to tell users how to view the "transparent copy"; it just tells them to go to http: However, it does vaguely help users vaguely find the history section.
No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright. No links to original article or mention of Wikipedia. No history section. Contains copies of the old wiki entries. Apparently related to gamelow. The wikipedia articles uses material from the Wikipedia article name. However, this links to " http: At http: Kind of amazing: And the wording on that page is very belligerent: Includes a backlink to WP, but doesn't appear to mention GFDL; in fact, it includes a lot of claims to copyright for all content.
Brief mention of Wikipedia on homepage , copied articles lack attribution. On their sources page linked at the bottom they cite "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. There are no backlinks to the Wikipedia article, there is a notice at the bottom 'Copyright , Discovery Media'. The site includes a page on the chessplayer Paul Morphy that mirrors full paragraphs of the Wikipedia article Paul Morphy. This is also the case for numerous other chessplayers.
There is a list of authors available. You can edit this article if you like. However, on some pages none of these links are colored or formatted distinctly from normal text until you hover over them ; thus, it is hard to tell they can be clicked. COM whois , http: There isn't a list of authors available or a link to the original Wikipedia article.
View a list of authors or edit this article. Uses images as thumbnails but doens't link to image pages. Google Books search: The website states that "Paperbacks marked "OCR" may have numerous typos or missing text. Other paperbacks contain Wikipedia content. Please check the book's Publication page, Introduction and the end of each chapter for further details. For example, you can click the hyperlink at the end of any chapter and then click the history tab to see a list of each chapter's contributors.
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Print on demand books [27]. See also VDM Publishing. No mention of GFDL; only mentions of Wikipedia are from copied cleanup notices; links back to original article are edit links only and not labelled. Articles end with "borgfind. Redirects from geeks. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section. Standard complaint letter sent to domain registrant as found via whois on 26 October by User: Is not clear what "the Wikipedia article" is. Standard complaint letter, modified to include request to remove copyright claim and request for link back to individual articles, sent to domain registrant as found via whois and customer service as found using Inquire link in the drop down menu on their pages on 12 November by User: WAvegetarian Example now states " This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Telectronics" " with link to original article -- Rumping Address info AT brassbandinformation.
WHOIS says very little: Carl Wilkinson Registrant type: UK Individual Registrant's address: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service. I believe that site is compliant. However I have only imported one article as above and request that someone more up to speed with this advise whether current efforts are acceptable.
There are two separate groups of copied articles. Some of them are linked from http: Examples of this include http: Material may not be copied or reprinted without written permission. They also still credit the submitter, such as "By Brian Fox" at the top, where Brian Fox is some disingenuous Britain. As of I sent an email asking that the ad hoc copies in the article section be removed outright, and explained how to make the articles in the Wikipedia section GFDL-compliant.
Another dynamic loader. Uses a dynamic loading script http: Not just any Creative Commons license, but a NonCommmercial license. Never mind that this is a commercial site with ads see http: Almost completely copy and pasted from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here on wikipedia but not written verbatim. It's written in the author's own words but clearly all the information is taken from wikipedia with no attribution at all. It's even in the same arrangement early life, career, directing, married life but without the section headings. Same as above. The "biography" section is taken from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here with no attribution.
On the About page, it says "Copyright: Website is badly mirrored, with misparsed formatting and broken images. Still non-compliant as of April Any WP content there is badly outdated [29] is marked "last updated ", for instance and provides no attribution as to the origin of the text. Since it still uses our content, I've reclassified it. He said he'll comply with our interpretation of the GFDL for derivative works. Let's give him some time to do so.
Sara (Fleetwood Mac song)
Medium, judging from the Google books copy. Precise degree of compliance is difficult to evaluate without buying a commercial copy. The licensing information provided on the "back cover" acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used, and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.
Articles state towards top that "Portions of the summary below have been contributed by Wikipedia. As an example the sample URL contains content that is word-for-word identical to this diff [30] which I do not believe is WP: The text at the bottom says that "Content on this website is from high-quality, licensed material originally published in print form. You can always be sure you're reading unbiased, factual, and accurate information. See entry listed under "S" [31] for actions. Copies a portion of the University of Oklahoma article with no mention of Wikipedia anywhere on the page.
Has CampusEmpire. Uses sections of sports-related articles. Has a note at the bottom of article, which includes several photos from wikipedia, that says "courtesy of Wikipedia" with a link to our main page. Have link back to article, GFDL text, and link to gnu. Patricia Hunter is owner, cannot find email or phone number of admin and ISP. Patricia's company's phone number UK: April 4, got response from info at canineconcepts dot co. Used their form-based emailer since that seemed to be the only way to get them email.
April 4, They revised this page and are in full compliance. I have not checked their site for other wikipedia-source articles. Has a note at the bottom of article which includes photos from wikipedia , that says "courtesy of thefreedictionary" with a link to their main page. Sent again to caninecrib AT caninecrib. Email of admin and technical is listed as Hoang, Chung; email chung dot h at ewebcircle dot com dot au.
Sending email to that address. Just got this email email address syntax edited by me: Mon, 17 Jul Photos were sent to me via the public. I will go through them and take them ones that are from wikipedia regards Chung Elf - Talk Sent standard violation letter to frontoffice AT gmail. Strangely, if a search term is appended to the URL of a celebrity, and the search term happens to be the name of a Wikipedia article, then you get the celebrities page in the browser but with the biography replaced with a mirror of the named Wikipedia article.
Includes link back to en. None so far Jeremyb talk No contact details listed on site. Standard letter emailed to whois contact at Awaiting response. There is mention of wikipedia because they just cut and paste the whole article but no link to the original article or included history. There is no mention of the GFDL they say on the home page "In turns, all the content in this site is free for everybody and every organization.
Owing to being lack of fund and manpower, we only mention author's name and where we find it. Sent the standard letter. The first line is "Your mail has been received". The second is scrambled by the markup text beyond recognition "due to The third one seems to be "we would notify you separately on when to resume Academy Award. Copyright notice in page footer includes "parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http: Blatantly copies material from Clan MacNeacail , to the extent that linked words and images link back to WP.
Additionally, the page is marked All rights reserved Western States Clan MacNicol. There's a contact form on the site's home page. In very small print: Does same thing for some pages taken from IMDb. Claims copyright at bottom of page. On its "disclaimer" page, it quotes U. All uses are accompanied by a GFDL notice, link to the original article, and mention of Wikipedia as the source. This is a search engine with a mirror of Wikipedia's Main Page. Searches show abstracts from Wikipedia. The front page http: I have emailed to ask for slightly better compliance. Superm - I am emailing to ask for a rephrasing of the copyright notice.
The text is clearly stolen from a variety of articles related to Manchester United F. I attempted to email the company using the email address on their website, but I immediately received a failed email notice. I have also submitted a copyright or copyleft infringement notice to Amazon. Absolutely false copyright claim on Wikipedia data, inappropriate usage of Wikipedia Trademark as logo http: Copy of Collection agency on various pages including the sample above. The author even kept in the Wiki markup. However, every page links to our list of economics topics rather than the particular page copied.
Received message that they have fixed problems and appreciate my notice. However, I replied noting that they link to the wrong page for most articles. Site features numerous comedian profiles; all four I checked were cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia articles with minor editing. Pamela Stephenson article includes material written by me. I checked three four more comedian profiles at random, and all were simply cut-and-pastes of corresponding Wikipedia articles with some abridgement.
COM technical whois , good AT positive-internet. Some entries credit Wikipedia. Most don't. Some attribute material to unrelated other Wikipedia mirrors. This was questioned as a source for Etymology of Assam at WP: Note that this is a book, not a website. I don't see any credit given to nor any other mention of Wikipedia. Publisher claims "All Rights Reserved. Notes that material "information" as the site says is from Wikipedia, with link to original article and main page at top and bottom of article respectively and links to local copy of the GFDL.
Specifically disclaims copyright of Wikipedia material in copyright section with another local link to the GFDL. Authors and dates are not listed. Sent letter asking for a direct link to article, on-site GFDL, and no claim of copyright. We will stay in touch and follow-up. See [40] , [41]. Uses text directly from Billy Bragg with no acknowledgement of source. Like Algebra. Links to the corresponding Wikipedia articles and notes that each article is licensed under the GFDL at the bottom of each page. However, it appears to be dynamically fetched, which is a major drain on Wikipedia resources.
See for instance http: Notified wikitech-l about dynamic loading. Links to irrelevant page in Wikipedia. No link to the original article. NET AT domainsbyproxy. The above sample is a slightly amended and shortened version of the Wikipedia article Bowling machine. I found two other examples: These pages aren't complete copies of whole articles, but they are clearly derived from them and consist mainly of shortened and slightly modified extracts. All Rights Reserved". Sent an E-mail 8 May Uses content from Chupacabra.
Links to Answers. Standard GFDL violation letter sent. Still no mention of the GFDL. I apologize for any inconvenience. None yet. Links to local copy of GFDL under the text "legal small-print". Articles do not mention Wikipedia. Babel Com Australia http: Pages are verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles. Private domain registeration through Domains by Proxy, Inc. Adds own copyright notice, no mention of wikipedia or GFDL. Purpose of site unclear, probably search engine spam.
Some not all pages are verbatim copies of old Wikipedia articles. All rights reserved", but looks like a verbatim copy of Wikipedia content , possibly from mid or complete with "[citation needed]" tags see, e. The paragraph starting with the words "By the ninth century, Owner contacted.
Fleetwood Mac - Sara Lyrics | SongMeanings
Links to original article and GFDL. Copies the whole namespace. MediaWiki doesn't seem to be working properly. Wikitext is displayed unparsed. Mentions Wikipedia links to Hauptseite , which redirects to our Main Page [probably an inappropriate redirct, and what does Hauptseite mean? Means main page? Sent violation letter asking for direct links to GFDL and original article. Each page gives correct sortof license at the bottom, but the link to further information on the license the link "copyright" does not lead to a functioning page. References to Wikipedia are not explicit, even though Wikimedia is mentioned.
A bottom link pointing to About: DictionPedia leads to a page about Wikipedia. The site is heavily filled with Google AdSense Ad's etc. What's worse, the site's main page which is simply a search field, claims that content is C DictionPedia. The page title still has "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"!
Unknown - tried to find one, but miserably failed. Fairly poor site that credits Wikipedia and the GFDL without linking to the articles in question, except in their silly "edit this page" links at top. Discovered it because the site spammed a good deal of Europe recently Email dated May 5, I don't know whether this site copies entire Wikipedia articles or only parts of articles. I don't know how much the site has copied in total. This requires further research.
Ian Langtree, who lives in Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada. The site owner provides an "email us" form, but doesn't list his phone number on the site. The site owner's email address and phone number are available via whois. Our general office hours are 8: Sent email 27 Dec Unforgettableid talk. Links to article page in miniscule text, stating "Some data may have been obtained" when some definitely has. States at bottom of page "Copyright , Discovery Media". Actions taken if any to attempt to make the website comply. None yet as at States that content is from Wikipedia with link to article at www.
Adds obnoxious adverts. States that content is from Wikipedia with link to www. Also includes medical disclaimer. Does not include history section or link to original article. Alton Lee and http: Brinkley ]. Uses popular mirror template. Includes "The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia. How to see transparent copy" with local link to GFDL and instructions to get to original article. Commercial domain registration site using a subset of technical Wikipedia articles.
Links to original article and offsite GFDL. Copied and edited text from Double bass , and photo Image: Copyright attributed to "Ibay international Ltd", and links through to http: On http: Sent e-mail 20 Nov See discussion at Talk: Uses Wikipedia's Logo and default MediaWiki color scheme, might confuse people into thinking they're reading or editing wikipedia. Not a fork per se, but I didn't know where else to put this. Left note on the wiki's main talk page, and also suggested content might make a good wikibook. Claims that the page presents copyrighted material under fair use doctorine of the U.
The publisher seems to be a Dutch. Fair use for an entire article is quite dubious. The extent of their use is not investigated. It may be just one article. Sent standard violation notice to webmaster AT earth-history. Uses at least one image, without mentioning wikipedia http: Sent an email asking that the image be correctly attributed and released under the correct licenses. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry talk Includes link to original article. No authors or dates listed. No general contact address.
Contacted using web form. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. No mention of GFDL, and claims copyright. Image link to www. Unlabeled links to original article. Sent standard letter via e-mail. Sent email to pavflo AT yahoo. Appearently machine-translated from German wikipedia to English. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. Remote host said: Willy on Wheels confirmed via dialogue on another editthis plagiarized Wikipedia's Adolf Hitler page word for word.
Also, vandal and admin templates were plagiarized. Finally obviously , the logo was used. Largely a straight copy of The Scream and claims own copyright for Webmaster AT EdvardMunch. Some content sourced from Wikipedia. Confusingly lists Wikimedia Foundation as the author, though the republisher is not affiliated. Lists names of Wikipedia editors who contributed to the articles. Listed at Scholarly Open Access: Seems to specialize in study guides for professional certifications and celebrity biography. Often have 'what you need to know' or '20 most asked questions about' in the title.
Over titles by this publisher are listed via Amazon". Example linked above seems to involve word-switching, which mangles the grammar of the original Wikipedia articles. Other samples: In at least one item , the cover provides no information about the publisher, author or sources, but the first page mentions GFDL although the last page actually includes only a link to CC-BY-SA in very small font and all the individual authors for all Wikipedia articles are listed at the end.
The format is identical to PediaPress mwlib and preserves both tables and infoboxes centred at the beginning of each article. There is no attribution for images, although all of them are listed with their authors at the end. Was probably downscaled in after negative reviews [52] [53] [54] , as with earlier complaints.
As of , about books are listed on Amazon. Composers from commons: Composers and http: Links to original article at top. Sent letter to team AT allaboutall. Replied back asking for local link to the GFDL. Mirrors the entire original Wikipedia page including the "Privacy policy", "About Wikipedia", and "Disclaimers" links on the bottom , but the content is severely outdated. There is no mention of it being a mirror other than a short notice in Chinese Translated by Google: There is neither any mention of the GDFL nor any links back to the original.
Sent letter to pws AT parwebsolutions. Article ends with "This article is provided by contributions of Wikimedia Foundation. All text is available under the GNU free documentation license. View live article. Links to local GFDL and original article. Sent letter to address above asking that notice links be underlined.
Couldn't find any indication that the articles are taken from Wikipedia, but the style and the listing of topics are similar. Nearly every article is a complete copy of a Wikipedia article on wine with many images uses. There is a vague and generic disclaimer on their license page saying that some material is from Wikipedia but there is no link from individual articles or images to their original Wikipedia source.
EncycloZine is organized into subsites which include: Sent standard letter. There is no webmaster email address posted, so I posted it on the forum. Vacuum c Claims copyright, no mention that text was taken from Tourette syndrome. Wikipedia text is copied with no attribution at all which is in violation of the GFD license. Kim, James jkim epier. Content copied from wikipedia articles, even including clean up tags in some cases [55] , but otherwise no mention of wikipedia or gfdl anywhere to be seen.
Overall site contains links to smaller domains such as sample URL. Year Pages for Eurovision taken from Wikipedia. Standard letter sent by Angela , 11 November via the feedback form on their site. Sent standard provider letter to abuse AT beeb. Appears to be primarily focused on biographies, with no notability requirements whatsoever. The unnamed creator of the site appears to have started the site off with a database dump of a number of wikis, including Wikipedia, and, based on the poor spelling and grammar throughout the site's interface, is probably not a native speaker of English.
They apparently at some point imported around 45k BLPs from enwiki, but provide full attribution and links back to Wikipedia on each imported page. Claims to include every wikipedia article. Claims to allow creation of articles on any topic that can be sourced, without regard to notability requirements.
Claims to encourage verified celebrities to edit their own pages. Claims to be an improvement on Wikipedia. Links back to source Wikipedia article, and to other cited sources. Explicitly says article is based on a Wikipedia article. Copies the Oklahoma Sooners article on the page with no mention of copyrights.
Has thorough GFDL notice with links to www. States, "Just like any written work the authors or contributors of the article own the copyright but by contributing their work to Wikipedia they are licensing it under the terms of the GNU FDL This license means that you are free to print and share the articles with anyone you wish, provided that you comply with the GNU FDL.
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Standard email sent. I replied thanking them but noting that part was cut off. I also brought up some wording problems. Notice was improved to note copyright and GFDL requirements, and is less cut off now. I replied suggesting using SSI instead of an iframe.
Displays at bottom of page: Links back to original article and the GFDL hosted at gnu. Brian Cryer - email: This site once had terrible compliance, but has improved through the efforts documented below. It now has the notice, "Licensing information: Follow up. Since explanation-guide EG did not give attribution for the image at Gbe languages which I created and released under CC-by Below I paste the contents of my first mail, the answer of mr.
Lawrence Smith of EG, and my response. I sent my mail to feedback AT explanation-guide. I will be posting further results soon. The images are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2. Explanation-Guide, unlike Wikipedia, does not give the required attribution, thereby violating the license. I trust that you resolve this issue soon, either by not using the images or by giving proper attribution to the creator.
Thank you, Mark Dingemanse Dear Mr. Dingemanse, Please accept my apologies: I was not aware that the images are licensed separately to the texts. Thankyou for pointing this out. As a short-term solution we have linked each image to an information page which links to the relevant page at Wikipedia. I hope this established attribution. We will try and add a more user-friendly and informative solution in the near future. Yours sincerely Lawrence Smith Dear Mr. Smith, thank you for your quick response. However, the short-term solution you propose does not work at present for the images I mentioned.
The problem is that the respective Wikipedia articles contain scaled down versions of the original images. In the Wikipedia articles, this scaled down version is linked to the original image and to the attribution information, thereby fulfilling the license requirements. On explanation-guide, this link is lost, the scaled down version is copied, and the information page instead refers to a non-existent page on Wikipedia.
Which leaves the issue unresolved. I do trust that you will find a solution soon. Dingemanse, Once again my apologies. The links now take into account scaling issues and link to the correct Wikipedia page. Annotated status of this entry to reflect this using the description property. There is an image that says "From Wikipedai, the free encyclopedia" beneath the title. First email sent with a proposal for improvement. Andre Engels Links to main page, and local copy of the GFDL section of another document.
Provides instructions for viewing transparent copy which consists of telling them to go to http: Calls itself "The fast Wikipedia mirror site with quick search. Ends article with "This article was derived fully or in part from the article Albania on Wikipedia. No authors and dates listed. Links to www. Keeps "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. That version of the article does link to the license very early. Pages say "modified by Geona". Asked them to link to actual GFDL. Notes this as "Fact-index. Links to en. Appears to fetch content from WP on command: Forum rules prohibit posting of copyrighted materials.
Unattributed text from Wikipedia article http: Forum moderator both fails to acknowledge a copyright breach has occured and asserts no obligation to remove copyrighted material from the site. Attempts to communicate with Icarus directly have resulted in no response. What action has been taken so far then? Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry Standard letter sent.
Jespley Site does not link back to Wikipedia articles, only to www. Email states: I have no record and don't recall receiving the earlier email that you refer too. However, we've reviewed the licence [again] to try and clarify your comments, and we stand corrected on a few points. Personally I don't find this licence a very straightforward one to interpret, but I agree that some changes are needed. As such we've added a locally hosted copy of the licence rather than the remote one at FSI, and this page is linked to by the text "GNU Free Documentation License" on every page on the site.
The "Copyright Splashweb, all rights reserved" statement was actually changed some weeks ago to "Copyright Statement. The "Copyright Statement" link leads to an updated Copyright Statement page with a link, in context, through to the copy of the licence. Many thanks for highlighting these points, not only to help ensure that compliance, but also these changes will make the copyright issue clearer to our visitors. Site seems to be in 'medium' compliance from now. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Samantha Mumba" with link to www. Also lists Wikipedia as a "friend".
Sent standard violation letter to host. Received response stating they would ignore copyright complaints that were not in the form of a DMCA takedown notice. Example redirects to computer-science. Directly links to Wikipedia. No local copy of GFDL. All images are local. Appears to be using an automatic script: Complete copies of WikiPedia and simple at fixed moments in time. Link to wikipedia. Done by BozMo and others: Copies of parts of Wikipedia articles, most often the leads.
Link to WP article but no mention that text was taken from WP article. Direct copies, for sale, of scores of Wikipedia biographical articles. There are 48 such titles listed at Google Books. Joshua Linsk Highland Pkwy St. No mention of Wikipedia. Sent letter asking for no javascript requirement, local GFDL, and link to article. Apparently used to have links to Wikipedia: