Re: basicmusic.net noncompliance

On Monday 17 November 2003 22:45, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Could you provide some links to specific articles on basicmusic.net that
> are being used illegally? I looked several times and only saw either a few
> sentences per entry and/or a list of external links where more info can be
> obtained (and for stuff to be bought). 

http://basicmusic.net/MusicianDisplay.php/musn/11

is an exact copy (except for the deletion of a comma) of the wikipedia John 
Cage article from 14 April 2003:

http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=John_Cage&oldid=939939

But notice how sneaky! They simply added their own first paragraph.

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http://basicmusic.net/MusicianDisplay.php/muscn/74

is an exact copy of the major part of the wikipedia Leonard Bernstein article 
from the 26th of March 2003:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Leonard_Bernstein&oldid=824343

Same procedure again: adding their own introductory paragraph.

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There are other violations listed on 
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sites_that_use_Wikipedia_for_content 
and I'm sure there are more if one looks for them. 

Fortunately in this case the extensive history of diffs between the versions 
of the articles leading up to the copied versions proves that they were 
indeed taken from wikipedia and not vica-versa.

Best,
Sascha Noyes

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