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Whisky

Just wondering, what's the beeb's policy for dealing with this situation...

A site has copied a complete edited entry - but they have quoted the 'h2g2 editors' as authors and linked back to the original version on hootoo...

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_21461.shtml


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Whisky


smiley - tongueout


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David Conway

"If you want to ask questions or make comments, please do not do it here."


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Whisky

smiley - erm

smiley - blush
Oops - RTFM Whisky!

smiley - run


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The H2G2 Editors

They've at least attributed the entry to h2g2, and provided a reverse link back. If the original authors had a problem with this, they would be within their rights to complain to the site, but it's unlikely the h2g2 team would do anything formally.


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Whisky

smiley - ok

(Sorry for posting this in the wrong place smiley - grovel=


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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office

Have you noticed that they haven't even changed the links? They all go through the BBC's "go" server.

TRiG.smiley - smiley


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