"J. Hugh Sullivan" <Eagle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:4932a756.3741765@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:04:27 +0000, Ian Goddard
> <goddai01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >Bhoggatt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >> On Nov 29, 6:22 am, Tim Powys-Lybbe <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> In message of 29 Nov, Bhogg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Mr. Alciere:
> >>>> Please explain your method of taking copyrighted information
without
> >>>> permission from other websites.
> >>> I am reasonably sure that in most countries data is not
copywrightable,
> >>> only the method of presentation is.
> >>>
> >>> In any case the must more serious problem with this sort of data
is its
> >>> veracity: what information is given about the reproducible
sources of
> >>> the data? The average website has no such information, so is
worthless.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Tim Powys-Lybbe
t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> For a miscellany of bygones:http://powys.org/
> >>
> >>
> >> I beg to differ. The presentation on the web is the coyrightable
> >> component. Scraping web sites and not producing it from your own
> >> sources is a violation and often times the reason that many
> >> researchers stop providing information.
> >
> >For one thing the OP wasn't about scraping websites, it was about
> >uploading of original transcripts.
> >
> >And for another, anyone who wants to publish but not have what he
> >published used by others needs to ask himself why he published in
the
> >first place. For goodness' sake - SHARE information, don't hoard
it!!!!
> >
> >--
> >Ian
>
> People need to be educated about sourcing when they use shared data.
A
> source is where a person got the data, not where someone else got
the
> data (except as a secondary source).
>
> Too many times we find that data we researched over a long period of
> time is scavenged by others who show themselves as the source.
>
> Hugh
So what?
I have published my research together with sources. Iīm doing it for
my own pleasure and donīt mind if other researchers are copying the
information. Please observe that I said "the information" not MY
information.
As Ian said: "For goodness' sake - SHARE information, don't hoard
it!!!!"
Kurt F
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