Paraphrasing of copyrighted material: Revision history

11 December 2023

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19 June 2023

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13 May 2023

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29 September 2022

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18 May 2022

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12 January 2022

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12 November 2021

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23 October 2021

• curprev 00:5600:56, 23 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ m 15,928 bytes +4‎ →‎Further reading: +publisher link undo
• curprev 00:5500:55, 23 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 15,924 bytes +2,111‎ →‎Further reading: +add'l sources that might be used to expand the article undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 00:3700:37, 23 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 13,813 bytes −770‎ →‎Sources: rmv unused refs undo
• curprev 00:3700:37, 23 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 14,583 bytes −756‎ →‎In Britain: nothing in this section is about paraphrasing, and the source doesn't mention paraphrasing; moving it to Copyright law of the United Kingdom#Background undo
• curprev 00:3300:33, 23 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 15,339 bytes −212‎ revise lead undo

22 October 2021

• curprev 16:5316:53, 22 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ m 15,551 bytes +22‎ →‎Further reading: |ref=none undo
• curprev 16:5216:52, 22 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ m 15,529 bytes 0‎ forgot to move Posner... undo
• curprev 16:5216:52, 22 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 15,529 bytes −1,457‎ rmv unused sources; move Gaines and Posner to Further reading undo
• curprev 16:4816:48, 22 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 16,986 bytes −5,405‎ →‎Example cases: removing this section as well as WP:UNDUE and misleading; I will post explanation on talk page undo
• curprev 16:4716:47, 22 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 22,391 bytes −505‎ →‎Permission agreements: rmv this section; Nolo is not an RS, it's a "how-to" or do-it-yourself book; Wikipedia is WP:NOTHOWTO. That publishers sometimes place limits in permissions agreements isn't relevant to paraphrasing in copyright law (permissions agreement = contract law) undo
• curprev 16:4516:45, 22 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 22,896 bytes −819‎ →‎Permission agreements: rmv Posner; it's an opinion piece on his blog, and this particular opinion is not WP:DUE (just because it's from Posner doesn't make it DUE, we need a secondary source, as Posner's blog is a primary source for Posner's opinion) undo

18 October 2021

• curprev 23:4123:41, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 23,715 bytes 0‎ rearrange lead a bit (still needs work tho) undo
• curprev 23:4023:40, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 23,715 bytes −27‎ →‎Comparison approaches: this should just be part of the lead; removing section heading undo
• curprev 23:3823:38, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 23,742 bytes +45‎ move {{multiple issues}} to the only section where it applies now undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 23:3423:34, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 23,697 bytes 0‎ rearrange sections undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 23:3223:32, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 23,697 bytes +4‎ move Permission agreements to be a subsection of "In the US" as the content is US-specific undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 23:3023:30, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 23,693 bytes −490‎ →‎Sources: rmv now-unused refs undo
• curprev 23:2223:22, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 24,183 bytes −1,166‎ moved detailed discussion of merger doctrine to merger doctrine, as it isn't specifically about paraphrasing (if merger applies, then it can not only be paraphrased but also copied verbatim) undo
• curprev 23:2023:20, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 25,349 bytes −1,279‎ →‎Exclusions: Moved Scenes a Faire content (which is about copyright, but not about paraphrasing, although it's now mentioned briefly in the "In the US" section) to Idea-expression distinction#Scenes a faire undo
• curprev 23:1723:17, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 26,628 bytes +1‎ move Posner photo to the section that talks about Posner (for now) undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 23:1623:16, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 26,627 bytes +46‎ →‎Factual v. fictional works: + mention and link scènes à faire undo
• curprev 23:1123:11, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 26,581 bytes −12‎ →‎In the United States: -1 subheader undo
• curprev 23:1023:10, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 26,593 bytes +50‎ →‎In the United States: add subheaders for factual and fictional works undo
• curprev 23:0823:08, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 26,543 bytes −193‎ →‎Sources: rmv now unused source undo
• curprev 22:5822:58, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 26,736 bytes −6‎ move the "Sample court findings" section to be a sub-section of "In the US" and rename it "Example cases" undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 22:5522:55, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 26,742 bytes −106‎ →‎In the United States: rmv Baker and Morrissey cases; no need to mention them, as they're more about merger than paraphrasing undo
• curprev 22:5422:54, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 26,848 bytes −928‎ →‎Sample court findings: rmv Baker v. Selden content; the case is not about paraphrasing; the Samuelson source doesn't talk about paraphrasing; both the case and the source are already in Baker v. Selden, so nothing to move undo
• curprev 22:5322:53, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 27,776 bytes −104‎ →‎Sample court findings: rmv 2nd sentence; unsourced, and the tests are described in the "In the US" section in greater detail undo
• curprev 22:5222:52, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 27,880 bytes −105‎ →‎Sample court findings: rmv 1st sentence b/c idea-expression dichotomy is already discussed elsewhere undo
• curprev 14:3714:37, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 27,985 bytes +9‎ move Nimmer (no longer cited inline, but does have some coverage of paraphrasing in copyright law) from "Sources" to "Further reading" undo
• curprev 14:3614:36, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 27,976 bytes −2,196‎ →‎Sources: rmv now-unused refs undo
• curprev 14:3114:31, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 30,172 bytes −794‎ →‎Comparison approaches: rmv Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions case; same as previous, this isn't about paraphrasing; the "extrinsic/intrinsic" test, another one of several substantial similarity tests, is covered in the article about substantial similarity and the article about this case, with secondary sources (inc. Nimmer) (also the analysis of this case is not totally accurate; it's more accurate as written in the other articles) undo
• curprev 14:2714:27, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 30,966 bytes −995‎ →‎Comparison approaches: rmv the Roth content; the case is not about paraphrasing; it's cited to the cases and not to secondary sources; the "total concept and feel test", one of several for substantial similarity, is already discussed (along with these cases, Roth and Reyher) in the relevant articles (cited to secondary sources), so there is nothing to move undo
• curprev 14:2314:23, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 31,961 bytes −150‎ →‎Comparison approaches: rmv the line about "substantial similarity"; this is a US-specific doctrine, not global; already covered in the "In the US" section, with better sources undo
• curprev 14:2114:21, 18 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 32,111 bytes −1,182‎ →‎Comparison approaches: rmv the Hand quote: 1. the quote isn't quoted in any of the secondary sources; 2. it's not about paraphrasing; 3. the details of the idea-expression dichotomy, and the Nichols abstractions test, are outside the scope of this article (not about paraphrasing); 4. the ellipses in the quote is SYNTH, connecting two disparate portions undo

17 October 2021

• curprev 22:1922:19, 17 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 33,293 bytes −454‎ →‎Comparison approaches: moving material about philosophical disagreement about thought and language to Idea-expression distinction undo

16 October 2021

• curprev 23:4423:44, 16 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 33,747 bytes −187‎ →‎Comparison approaches: removing the "courts have struggled" line as uncited WP:OR analysis (and it presupposes that courts are even trying to come up with a single clear method, which is a conclusion unsupported by the sources... different jurisdictions have different rules, they're not trying to come up with one rule to rule them all) undo
• curprev 23:4323:43, 16 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 33,934 bytes −208‎ →‎Comparison approaches: rmv See v. Durang; we shouldn't cite directly to cases or use cases as examples unless it's via a secondary source; See v. Durang is known for the proposition that (duh) if it's not similar, then it's not copyvio... this isn't relevant to paraphrasing specifically undo
• curprev 23:4223:42, 16 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 34,142 bytes −174‎ →‎Comparison approaches: rmv Fishman line; I think Fishman is not an RS for reasons I said on the talk page; aside from that, this is not supported by the source (and if a paraphrase were so different that there was *no* similarity, then it wouldn't be a paraphrase at all) undo
• curprev 23:3023:30, 16 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 34,316 bytes +81‎ →‎Comparison approaches: revise sentences cited to Head p. 243 to more closely match what Head says undo
• curprev 23:2123:21, 16 October 2021‎ Levivich talk contribs‎ 34,235 bytes −46‎ →‎Comparison approaches: remove "Equivalent concepts apply to images or music" per previous undo