Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines/Copyvio

Wikipedia contents are frequently used by Filipinos and Philippine-based entities for various purposes, such as identification, illustration and other productive uses. While we believe these contents are being used in good faith and for good reason, users of Wikipedia content outside Wikipedia frequently do not cite Wikipedia as the source of the work or the creator of that work as the rightful creator thereof. This omission of attribution poses problems not only for the creator of the work, the community and Wikipedia as a whole, but also for the end-user of the content, as such use without attribution is a violation of the various free-use licenses Wikipedia content is licensed under.

The goal of the copyright violations department is to inform erring users of both their wrongful use of the content in question and to request erring users to cite Wikipedia content that they use as much as possible.

Q: What is this?
A: This is a notice board for copyright violations done within the Philippines.

Q: What exactly is a copyright violation? Aren't Wikimedia images/material free?
A: Yes they are free; anyone may use them for any purpose, commercial and non-commercial. However, they would need to cite/mention that the image/material is from Wikipedia and/or was created by some author.

Q: How could I help?
A: Report any copyright violation you see that is any use of Wikimedia images/material without any citation, including violations from websites, television stations, radio, newspapers et cetera. Better yet search the web yourself to find copyright violations.

Q: Huh? Radio. And exactly how could I view images from the radio.
A: Well, copyright violations cannot be only done unto images but all Wikimedia content. If you see/hear Wikimedia articles/content being used in some newspaper or radio program without citation, then report it here since that is also a copyvio.

Q: How could this help? So what if I report it here. Like that's going to make any difference.
A: Yes it would make a difference. It better do. This notice board would help stop further more copyvios. Through this notice board, a copyvio task force could be created that would urge sites violating Wikimedians' copyright to cite us. And if ever that the violation is done by a large company, ABS-CBN for example, we plan to also urge those companies, through the future Wikimedia Foundation Philippines, to stop violating our copyright and cite our content.

How to report a copyright violation

|{{No|
'''Date reported:''' {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}-{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}-{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}

'''Violator:''' <!-- name of copyright violator company and author (if applicable)-->

'''Link/Time:''' <!-- indicate only if applicable (website);
if television/radio, put show name and time when the violation was done;
if newspaper, put page number and section name if you still remember -->

'''Summary:''' <!-- Describe it. Why is it a violation? -->

'''Reporter:''' ~~~ <!-- It was intentional to indicate only three tildes not the traditional four -->
}}
|-
|}

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