Editing German Wikipedia (section)

=== Unauthorized uses ===
While everyone is free to use Wikipedia content, there are certain conditions, such as attribution, a copy of the license text and no non-free [[derivative work]]s (see [[Creative Commons licenses]] and [[GNU Free Documentation License]] for details).

In March 2005, the German news magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' published an article on the [[Rwandan genocide]] in its online edition; it was a copy of Wikipedia's article. The article was taken down soon after and replaced with an apology.<ref>[http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-03-09-n29.html German Spiegel Copied Wikipedia] 9 March 2005</ref>

In April 2005, the encyclopedia ''Brockhaus'' published an article about the new pope [[Josef Ratzinger]] in its online edition. Because of its close similarity to Wikipedia's article, suspicion arose right away that the ''Brockhaus'' article might have been plagiarism. The article was removed soon after but ''Brockhaus'' did not apologize or admit guilt (see ''[[The Signpost]]''{{'s}} {{srlink|Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-05-09/Brockhaus plagiarism suspected|coverage}}).