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Is cutting and pasting press releases a copyright violation?
I have a question. A number of editors often cut-and-paste, verbatim, the plot concept for upcoming episodes of South Park into the newly-made stub articles for those episodes prior to their debut. Two different editors, for example, did so here and here with the episode that debuts tonight. Is this copyright infringement? Or are press released written with the expectation that they will be reproduced verbatim for promotional purposes? I tend to think that it's a copyvio, but wanted to be sure by soliciting other opinions. Granted, these additions would still violate WP:V for being unsourced and WP:TONE and WP:NOTADVERT for the way their written, but aside from those issues, I want to know if the community thinks they violate copyright if not paraphrased. Nightscream (talk) 15:27, 13 November 2013 (UTC)