Questions tagged [copyrights]
The copyrights tag has no usage guidance.
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What is the legal position re cut & pasting OED entries?
The most recent posts I can find on this subject date from 2015 and earlier. Does anyone know the authoritative up-to-date advice on whether that which is posted to the EL & U site constitutes &...
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What's being done to protect users' copyright?
I previously asked this question here on ELU Meta and on Meta too:
Mass infringement of our copyright
From the information that I got from the answers to that question from Meta and from ELU I ...
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Mass infringement of our copyright
The website Learnhub.org seems to be copying content wholesale from EL&U without any attribution at all. Unlike with this blogsite problem here, there isn't even a link back to the original EL&...
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TechQues using English.SE content without proper attribution
TechQues is reposting SE content but plastered with their own adverts. For example, this:
* http://www.techques.com/question/32-69210/What-is-the-best-term-to-categorize-a-lolcat-image-and-text
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www.rqna.net scraping EL&U and SE content
The site http://www.rqna.net/index-kmoh.html appears to be reposting a lot of EL&U content with their own ads (and other SE sites too). I can't see any proper attribution, or links back. Some ...
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www.zqna.net scraping EL&U and SE content
The site http://www.zqna.net/hokmohohoh/index.html appears to be reposting a lot of EL&U content (and it looks like other SE sites too). I can't see any proper attribution, or links back. Some ...
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http://english.seeore.com/ scraping EL&U content
The site http://english.seeore.com/ appears to be reposing a lot of EL&U content plastered with ads (5,047 posts at time of writing). I can't see any proper attribution, other than this footer ...
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Is http://englishqna.blogspot.com violating EL&U (or YOUR) copyright?
The site http://englishqna.blogspot.com seems to be reposting all our questions and answers. Now, I understand that the data is under a permissive license, but the attribution requirements don't seem ...
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Does copy and paste infringe copyrights?
I saw many questions which have been answered by copying whole sections from e.g. NOAD.
I wonder whether there is a limit regarding the comprehension.
