User talk:RobotNick
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You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round. 
Joe I 03:06, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your image
i don't have the time to read all the pages about the opyrights - please don't upload content to Wikipedia if you don't have time to read the important pages about it as you might get both yourself and Wikipedia into some deep legal trouble in your locality.
He gave me personally the permission i'm allowed to use the material in the course, so i don't see any reason why the image has been deleted, since it's also necessary to make the point of the article clear - did he also give you express permission to copy the material and distribute it freely across the internet? If not, it was copyright and you were breaking the law to upload it. You also said that only Wikipedia could use the copyright material - fine, but Wikipedia material is extensively syndicated across the world both online and in print, frequently for commercial use. So "Wikipedia only" is useless to us as a license.
Furthermore, since it's copyright, i think i have the right to make a new diagram with the lines oriented in another way, don't i? - since it's copyright, no, quite the reverse. You have no rights over the image at all. You can make another from scratch as nobody can copyright an idea, but if the result is seen to be a "derivative work" then it is also a copyright violation.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Can I just as you a question - did you really get all the way to college without ever learning anything about copyright? I ask for information only. REDVERS ↔ SЯEVDEЯ 18:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
