Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright
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Problem
An article is using copyrighted content without permission.
Solution
Wikipedia is a wiki, so you can remove the content yourself!
- Follow the instructions on our copyright problems page
Are you the copyright owner?
- If you are the copyright owner or represent the copyright owner, we can assist you best via e-mail. You may contact us at info-en-c@wikimedia.org with an informal request. Please cite the exact URL (the "address" of the page as shown by your web browser, as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), and provide enough information to substantiate your claim of copyright ownership.
Correspondence is answered by a small team of volunteers.
- If you prefer to use the slower process of a formal OCILLA request, you can send it to our designated agent
Important notes
Facts cannot be copyrighted, only their expression. That is, you cannot claim copyright on some Wikipedia article just because it happens to cite the same facts as a text or page that you wrote; you may only claim if the text in the article was lifted from your work.
This is a contact page for the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts sites such as wikipedia.org, wikisource.org, wikimedia.org. The Wikimedia Foundation does not host answers.com, nor does it host the millions of sites to which Wikipedia may have links. If you have issues with these sites, we suggest you contact those who host or edit them.
