User talk:John haxor

March 2021[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; however, please remember the essential rule of respecting copyrights. Edits to Wikipedia, such as your edit to the page List of security hacking incidents, may not contain material from copyrighted sources unless used with permission. It is almost never okay to copy extensive text out of a book or website and paste it into a Wikipedia article with little or no alteration, though you can clearly and briefly quote copyrighted text in the right circumstances. Content that does not comply with this legal rule must be removed. For more information on this, see:

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This is totally ridiculous! There is no special note at WIRED that it is copyright reserved, and rather the U.S. Fair Use doctrine allows occasional use of such materials provided it is for noncommercial or transformative purposes such as educational, which is often the case in Wikipedia. Going by your reasoning, what if one day Australia or perhaps Canada enacts and expands the notorious news tax law to here, which had already caused much problems for Facebook users in Australia?John haxor (talk) 16:44, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a very strict copyright policy, stricter in some ways than copyright law itself, because our fair use policy does not allow us to copy material from copyright sources when there's a freely licensed alternative available. In this case the freely licensed material is prose that we write ourselves. Short quotations are okay, but only when there's no alternative.

By the way, I am not watching this page, so I had no way of knowing you had posted a message for me. Please see Help:Notifications for one way to do it. Another alternative is to place a {{talkback}} template on my talk page.— Diannaa (talk) 11:10, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]