http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/2009/09/17/i-was-shocked-to-find-plagerism-on-the-internet/ All the Corsair that's fit to print. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:35:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/2009/09/17/i-was-shocked-to-find-plagerism-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-1409 corsair Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:22:51 +0000 http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/?p=147#comment-1409 Well, I didn't really look hard enough to tell if the sites claimed the material as their own--I was just so jazzed to see my work proliferated through the Great Wide Web. Wikipedia is far from copyrighted--it's all public-domain and fair-use. It's part of their charter. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#License_and_language_editions" rel="nofollow">This ought to help clear up your question</a> better than I can. Well, I didn’t really look hard enough to tell if the sites claimed the material as their own–I was just so jazzed to see my work proliferated through the Great Wide Web. Wikipedia is far from copyrighted–it’s all public-domain and fair-use. It’s part of their charter. This ought to help clear up your question better than I can.

]]> http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/2009/09/17/i-was-shocked-to-find-plagerism-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-629 bunny42 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:46:54 +0000 http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/?p=147#comment-629 Did the sites you referenced claim the info as their own? They got it from Wikipedia, right? If you make a contribution to Wiki, is it copyrighted? I don't know how those things work, but have often seen chunks of Wiki info used in other places, but quoted from Wiki. Just curious. Did the sites you referenced claim the info as their own? They got it from Wikipedia, right? If you make a contribution to Wiki, is it copyrighted? I don’t know how those things work, but have often seen chunks of Wiki info used in other places, but quoted from Wiki. Just curious.

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