User talk:LizzieCarter

Your addition to Oldham Coliseum Theatre has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Mr Stephen (talk) 18:03, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Once again. We cannot use copyright material from other websites without the explicit permission of the copyright owners. The material you are adding to Oldham Coliseum Theatre is far too close to text at http://coliseum.org.uk/who-are-we/who-are-we/, which has a clear copyright claim at the foot of the page. Mr Stephen (talk) 12:51, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lizzie. Thanks for your message. Short answer: release the Coliseum's web pages from copyright.

Long answer. Anything creative is automatically protected by copyright. Wikipedia has to be careful not to steal other people's copyrighted work. If Wikipedia's editors see another editor (like you) adding what appears to be copyright material to an article, they will delete it. Now, you write that you "have a right to use this copy from the theatre's website". Fair enough; but you would be surprised at how many people with no such right have written that kind of thing here. Assuming that you have the powers, one way to proceed is to release all of the Coliseum's web pages from copyright by changing the licensing to something Wikipedia-compatible, see WP:PERMISSIONS. A second way is to contact OTRS alowing the release (again, see WP:PERMISSIONS). The third way is to rewrite the text. Regards, Mr Stephen (talk) 18:01, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Once again. We cannot use copyright material from other websites without the explicit permission of the copyright owners. Mr Stephen (talk) 17:02, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]