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Mass copyright violations in trivia
For the past couple months, I've been seeing large numbers trivia items for films that have been copied and pasted from both the film's articles on Wikipedia and their production notes.
Re the latter, I've deleted literally hundreds of them, including for the films Heist (2001), Killers (2010), Mortdecai (2015), Criminal (2016) and The Lost City of Z (2017).
For an example of ones I stumbled on today, check out pretty much every item for Beirut (2018): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4669264/trivia
Production notes are of course long-form press releases put out to promote the movie. Keyword "promote" - as you can see, it's badly-written, sugary "wow, our movie's great!" crap that offers very, very little in terms of "trivia" for IMDb's purposes.
Things that have been copied from Wikipedia wholesale, usually from the film's "Production" (or whatever) section of its Wiki article, are things about premieres at film festivals, release dates being set, and so on. This is not trivia, it's stuff that can be listed in whatever respective category, like Release Dates.
And these are all, of course, flagrant copyright violations!
Could a staff member perhaps contact the user or users submitting all this stuff, and tell them what they're doing wrong? Thanks!
Re the latter, I've deleted literally hundreds of them, including for the films Heist (2001), Killers (2010), Mortdecai (2015), Criminal (2016) and The Lost City of Z (2017).
For an example of ones I stumbled on today, check out pretty much every item for Beirut (2018): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4669264/trivia
Production notes are of course long-form press releases put out to promote the movie. Keyword "promote" - as you can see, it's badly-written, sugary "wow, our movie's great!" crap that offers very, very little in terms of "trivia" for IMDb's purposes.
Things that have been copied from Wikipedia wholesale, usually from the film's "Production" (or whatever) section of its Wiki article, are things about premieres at film festivals, release dates being set, and so on. This is not trivia, it's stuff that can be listed in whatever respective category, like Release Dates.
And these are all, of course, flagrant copyright violations!
Could a staff member perhaps contact the user or users submitting all this stuff, and tell them what they're doing wrong? Thanks!
ACT_1
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6 years ago
Joined community on October 4, 2019
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb
and other pages offer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb#References
where the information was originally found
IMDb could add this option ? ?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut_(film)
Beirut, also known as The Negotiator (UK),[2]
is a 2018 American political thriller film [3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut_(film)#References
2. "THE NEGOTIATOR (15)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
3. Ann Hornaday (2018-04-11). "In 'Beirut,' Jon Hamm is a beleaguered U.S. diplomat drawn into the Lebanese civil war". Washington Post.
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Peter_pbn
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6 years ago
If the same contributor(s) are behind many such entries, they should be stopped.
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Joel
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6 years ago
Thanks for your posts.
If you've identified ineligible information such as copied Trivia, please submit a deletion request where possible and include an explanation to let us know why it's being removed.
I'll look into the existing Trivia and stopping it's continued addition.
Cheers,
Joel
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