User talk:PTW16

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Your recent article creations have been blatant cut & paste copyright violations. Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. See Wikipedia:Copyrights. Copyright violations are unacceptable and persistent violators will be blocked. Your original contributions are welcome. -- Scientizzle 18:16, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey! Seriously! Quit making articles that are copyright violations...please check out the Wikipedia policies at Wikipedia:Copyrights before continuing! I have tagged Kevin Higgins for delete. -- Scientizzle 18:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

If that's true you need to make clear that you have complete rights the the content on the talk page. There's no way for anyone to know if you just cut & paste from websites.

Copyright law can be very complex--for example, your article on Ed Conroy was a cut and paste from this site, which has "Copyright © 2006, CSTV Networks, Inc. and The Citadel." One would need to secure permission from CSTV Networks, Inc. and The Citadel to lawfully post this content since there is no author byline (as I understand...). You might check out Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ (especially here).

That said, I don't want to discourage you from editing or adding content, just do it within the bounds of the (confusing at times) copright rules. -- Scientizzle 18:48, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

If you're the author of http://www.uscphisigs.com/?page_id=2 , could you put a note on that page indicating you license it under GFDL? That would resolve the coyright problem. Conscious 11:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)