Wikipedia:Republishers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Republishers reproduce Wikipedia content wholesale in hard copy, usually for profit. The licensing terms may or may not be properly included in the publication. Publications that include some content from a Wikimedia project are not considered as republished.
- Using these republishers on Wikipedia
- Republishers are not reliable sources and not acceptable external links in articles per the verifiability policy. Articles that use a republished work as a source should be edited to either remove the work or to tag the source with {{Circular-ref}}. Leave {{backwardscopy}} on the article's talk page to identify Wikipedia as the original source.
- Legality of republishing
- Every contribution to the English Wikipedia has been licensed for re-use, including commercial, for-profit printing in hard copies. Republication is legal, so long as the licenses are complied with.
- Effect of non-compliance with licenses
- If the license is not complied with, then the republication is a copyright violation. You own the copyright to your contributions, not the Wikimedia Foundation. Legally, the Wikimedia Foundation is in the same position as the republishers (except that the WMF always complies with your license terms), because the WMF is republishing your copyrighted content under your license. If someone violates the terms of the license, then enforcement needs to come from the copyright owner. Consequently, complaints about violations need to be made by a person who actually wrote part of the improperly republished material.
Note: While some republishers do not even attempt to use properly issued ISBNs, noting those that do enables circular refs to be spotted more easily.
Republishers
Books LLC
| URL | http://booksllc.net/ |
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USA International Business Publications/International Business Publications
| URL | http://www.ibpus.com/ |
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| Sample | See discussion at . |
| Rating | Zero. Listed as © Publisher; Wikipedia and the GFDL do not seem to be mentioned. |
| Compliance | All titles reviewed are verbatim reprints of a collection of Wikipedia articles. Some titles state that "some" of the content is in the public domain. Website states that "Each book always has the latest content available on the day of ordering. The content of all book is updated on a perpetual basis." They further state that they have "used its best efforts in collecting, analyzing and preparing data, information and materials for this unique guide." Claiming to be the publisher, they also say that use "for any commercial purposes requires a special written permission from the publisher." |
| Contact info | rusric@erols.com |
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Jean-Pierre Hombach (author)
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| Sample | E.g. http://books.google.dk/books?id=QFfna7cP9DMC |
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| Compliance | At least for some work he is crediting himself as author and takes the copyright. |
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| Actions | No action taken yet |
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing
| URL | http://www.jaypeebrothers.com/ |
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| Sample | http://books.google.ca/books?id=VAqP7xd4r74C&pg=PA264 |
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| Compliance | The section on AIDS is exactly the same as our section on HIV from 2010 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HIV&oldid=402612350#Sexual ] |
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| Actions | Have emailed the published. And touched base with Amazon
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eM Publications
Global Vision Publishing House (publisher)
| URL | http://www.globalvisionpub.com/globalbooks/ |
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| Sample | See the discussion at the Reliable Sources noticeboard: some (not all) books copy from Wikipedia. Do not presume that any book from this publishing house is a reliable source; do not link to copyvio. |
| Rating | Zero. Listed as © Publisher; Wikipedia and the GFDL do not seem to be mentioned. Some books copy from other sources, both online and printed, and do not appear to acknowledge those either. Many books have a more encyclopædia-like structure, with a series of many articles / short sections rather than one big body of prose; different articles/sections in the books sometimes appear to borrow from different sources. In one case an obvious grammatical error in the source text appears to have been copied verbatim. |
| Compliance | Various Global Vision books have raised concerns of copyvio on wikipedia articles, but in each case the article text predates the date the book was published.
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| Actions | No actions taken yet. |
Hephaestus Books
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| Compliance | From book descriptions on Amazon: "Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge." |
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VDM Publishing
VDM Publishing is the largest known republisher and operates at least 78 imprints:
| URL | http://www.alphascript-publishing.com/ |
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| Contact info | It is possible to have these books withdrawn from Amazon by complaining, particularly if you are the author of a substantial amount of content on Wikipedia. |
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| URL | http://www.betascript-publishing.com/ |
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| Actions | It is possible to have these books withdrawn from Amazon by complaining, particularly if you are the author of a substantial amount of content on Wikipedia. |
| URL | http://www.alphascript-publishing.com/ |
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| Sample | Electronic Cigarettes: Technology that is replacing tobacco |
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| Actions | It is possible to have these books withdrawn from Amazon by complaining, particularly if you are the author of a substantial amount of content on Wikipedia. |
| URL | https://www.doyen-verlag.de/ |
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| Actions | It is possible to have these books withdrawn from Amazon by complaining, particularly of you are the author of a substantial amount of content on Wikipedia. |