Sasha7272
Copyright problem on South China Morning Post
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- Hi Diannaa! Thank you for your word of welcome. I did check the copyright policy of the journal from which the quotations are taken. Here is their statement:
- "COPYRIGHT POLICY:
- This website and Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights are open-access materials published under a Creative Commons 4.0 Unported License. We encourage the widespread circulation of the material published on this website. While all content may be used and copied, we request that you credit Chinoiresie and/or Made in China and provide a link to: www.chinoiresie.info."
- In the Wikipedia page there is a detailed reference with a link back to the website, so I assumed this was OK and in line with Creative Commons. Do you think a change is necessary? Again, many thanks. Yours, --Sasha7272 (talk) 20:03, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
- But that's not where I found the material; it was copied from http://www.chinoiresie.info/confessions-made-in-china/, which is the source you cited in your addition. I did not remove the quotation; I removed the surrounding copyright prose copied from http://www.chinoiresie.info/confessions-made-in-china/. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:51, 1 July 2018 (UTC)