Your addition to International Spy Museum has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. --Hnsampat (talk) 00:30, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Please see https://web.spymuseum.org/ISM_2004_general_press_release.doc. The nice folks at http://www.culturekiosque.com/nouveau/news/spymuseum.html were kind enough to display our press release on their webpage but that hardly gives them the intellectual property rights to our press release. In addition, The International Spy Museum is the property of Milton Maltz. Raycom Media purchased Mr. Maltz's broadcast business and has no affiliation with the Museum. Please contact other@spymuseum.org with any questions.
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- With regard to your comment on my talk page: first of all, to copy-and-paste a press release verbatim on Wikipedia is a violation of the copyright that the International Spy Museum holds on the press release, unless you can show some evidence that the International Spy Museum has released its copyright. Furthermore, since you admit that this is a press release from the International Spy Museum, and from your comments it appears that you are somehow affiliated with the museum, it appears that you are using Wikipedia for blatant advertising. This is a violation of Wikipedia policy. Please do not add such material back to the article again or you will run the risk of being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you! --Hnsampat (talk) 14:06, 21 December 2010 (UTC)