Plagiarizing Wikipedia For Profit 223
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.
Copy/Paste needs help (Score:3, Funny)
(Profit?)
Like I always say (Score:1, Funny)
Re:How are they going to claim... (Score:5, Funny)
You're so right! Noone on the wider internet or even slashdot has ever considered this!
Re:Good idea, but (Score:3, Funny)
"There's no such thing as plagiarism..." (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Copy/Paste needs help (Score:2, Funny)
"Possibly imaginative programmer will outside there begin "de -.Plagiatorstvuet" application and holds it to all platforms. You will stick text or diagram into the box and outside flap the perfect paraphrase (profit?)"
Re:Copy/Paste needs help (Score:5, Funny)
The solution (Score:5, Funny)
Wikipedia's Official Reaction... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:According to law... (Score:2, Funny)
For example: I am quite sure that my wife and I do things in our bedroom that some bible-thumping religious nazi would find highly immoral. Does that mean they should be illegal? I think not.
Re:According to law... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes.
Well that settles that then. Thanks for your time.
stethoscope (Score:3, Funny)
If we have a stethoscope for the minds of various characters involved at different time, it could be like this:
A year later...
slashdot mentality (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How are they going to claim... (Score:3, Funny)