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[edit] re Not copyright violation for Piedmont, CA

You wrote:

It's not a copyright violation to take stuff from government sites. It's called public domain materials. Please learn more about copyright law before appointing yourself the copyright police.
That is untrue. All webpages on the Piedmont California website have the "©2005 Piedmont, CA" at the bottom of the web page. If you read the bottom of http://www.acgov.org/privacy.htm on the Alameda County web site, it says that "The content of acgov.org web pages is copyrighted". If all this material was in public domain, why would they put a copyright notice? Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 09:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
I can cite other California government cities, communities and agencies that say that the material on their web site is copyrighted. Because the Piedmont web site does not explicitly say that their matterial is in the public domain, I must follow Wikipedia's rules of copyright and remove it. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 09:42, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Let me clarify: Unless I am completely sure that it is in public domain (the only copyright or copyleft message on the Piedmont website is the phrase "Questions or Comments? email: aswift@ci.piedmont.ca.us - ©2005 Piedmont, CA" on http://www.ci.piedmont.ca.us/rightside.htm)... if there is any question in doubt... under the policies of Wikipedia, which are indeed much stricter than the copyright laws in general, I should either remove it or rewrite the material in my own words. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 10:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)