User talk:TMNTOM

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Music Network[edit]

A tag has been placed on The Music Network requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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Copyright and "The Music Network"[edit]

You posted a query to the talk page of the article The Music Network. I have made a reply there, but, in case by any chance the page should get deleted before you find it, I am copying both your query and my reply here. I hope I have clarified matters for you. Please feel welcome to contact em on my talk page if you have anything else to ask about this. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:18, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand why the two articles that have been sited prove any kind of 'violation' of copyright. The first article is on the website that is the company in question. The second page is an artist's page referencing the chart that this article discusses. If anything, I feel these pages justify the need for this article to be here. The magazine that this article is about has the the most referenced radio airplay chart in Australia. Can someone explain the problem? TMNTOM (talk) 13:24, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above post seems to be written by someone who does not understand what the word "copyright" means. If somebody writes something then they have the right to decide who can use what they have written and how. (The exact legal position is more complicated, with various ifs and buts, but that is the basic idea.) Wikipedia licenses its content under very broad terms, allowing anyone to reuse the material in a wide range of circumstances. The copyright in the material which has been copied into this article belongs to the authors of that material, unless they have assigned the copyright to someone else. The owners of the copyright may or may not be happy for their work to be republished on Wikipedia page; even if they are, they may or may not be happy for their work to be made available for anyone and everyone else to use fairly freely. If they are happy for this to happen then it is up to them to tell us that it is so. As long as they have not done so cannot assume that they are happy for that to happen, and we cannot legally reproduce their work here.

It is worth also mentioning one other fact. It is common for editors who are new to Wikipedia to introduce a new article, see it deleted for copyright reasons, and then spend some effort on rewriting the article avoiding breaching copyright, only to see the article deleted for other reasons. To avoid the risk of this happening I strongly urge anyone who may think of rewriting this article to read Wikipedia's notability guideline, as I think this might still be deleted as non-notable if it were not deleted for copyright infringement. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:13, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]