User talk:Apeholder

Your edit to Citizen's arrest has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. This is your third warning. — Diannaa (talk) 14:58, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On your revision history, you said that Irish law is copyright protected for 50 years from publication. I'm going to need a source on that, because it sounds ridiculous. How can the law of the land be subject to copyright? Are people in Ireland being charged with offences under various acts but not allowed to see the offence wording reprinted because it's subject to copyright? Come on, this is highly dubious... Show me where on the copyright/re-use page from the Irish government where this "50 year" rule comes from: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/copyright-and-reuse/ Apeholder (talk) 17:44, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Apeholder. Legislation is protected by copyright in many countries, including Canada and India. I found the information regarding Ireland at commons:Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Ireland#Government copyright. This page appears to be compatibly licensed but this one is not. That's the one I initially checked. If you can find the same material at the actual website of the Government of Ireland it would be okay to include it. Please be sure to include an attribution template as part of your citation. The one to use is {{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4|from this source=yes}} — Diannaa (talk) 00:07, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the revision deletion so that you can see which material was sourced to which website. — Diannaa (talk) 00:26, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]