A fact from Osteopathic Oath appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 December 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in 2000, the Osteopathic Oath was used by every osteopathic medical school in the U.S.?
The text of the oath is public domain and likely replicated on dozens of websites. The source text is on osteopathic. org, but there's no copyright notice there. KerowynLeave a note00:13, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Kerowyn: Hi, do you know what the 1954 "minor amendments" to the oath were? The 1938 publish date would seem to put in in Public Domain as you say, but that will depend on how extensive those amendments were. CrowCaw23:38, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The 1938 publication date might not make it PD. As Wikipedia:Public domain notes, public domain is presumed for "any work published before January 1, 1923". Works published in 1938 may still be under copyright depending on the terms of their publication. Without information on those terms, we cannot use the content except in accordance with WP:NFC, which requires that we quote only a small amount of the oath. Pending definitive information on the copyright status, the content has been removed in accordance with copyright policy. It can, of course, be summarized. (Broad replication and lack of copyright notice currently, unfortunately, doesn't help us determine copyright status.) --Moonriddengirl(talk)12:45, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
