Talk:Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.librarything.com/work/922702. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 19:41, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Cited information used a source. A paraphrase (and alteration, plus addition) is not a breach of copyright, at least not under any legal jurisdiction that I am familiar with. Lev Lafayette (talk) 12:12, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Having checked the librarything link, did it occur to you that the content may have come from the article, rather than the article taking the material from librarything? Lev Lafayette (talk) 12:18, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

I have double checked the LibraryThing post, and it looks like they copied from us, not the other way around. Sorry about the mistake. -- Diannaa (talk) 16:12, 7 December 2013 (UTC)