On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:59:08 +0100, "Kurt" <kurt.fredriksson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>
>"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
What you show, unless you copied everything, is "your information" -
you researched, collected and displayed it.
You appear to be saying that you don't care about accuracy in
sourcing. Did I miss something?
Hugh


|