Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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Plagiarizing Wikipedia For Profit

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 13, @05:46AM
from the ip-is-on-the-other-foot dept.

Books

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

Slashdot | Plagiarizing Wikipedia For Profit

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