Yes in what I am posting I am mindful of that having happened, I found
myself arguing at a conference with a well known pyscologist who just
happened to refer to that particular study and set him right about the
consternation it had caused.
Fair use is fair use, and I suppose from a technical point of view it is
fair to quote an email in the reply as this is standard practice, it is also
acceptable to archive it on a list serv, but for people to plunder that
archive for field study is not acceptable, indeed I am not sure any of what
Levi Strauss did was really ethically acceptable in todays climate.
Most lists have a policy of keeping what is said on list within the list,
and that policy extends to asking a posters permission before reposting
something of interest to another list.
There are unfortunatly many internet "rogues" about, who because they can do
such a thing and it is easy to do such a thing, will plunder peoples posts
and web sites.
It is simply unethical to do so when it is so easy to ask first. Normally I
never object if I am asked, but I have found an example of someone elses
paper, which I put on a site with full permission, copied elsewhere and all
links to my site removed. I know who did it, and I also know that they did
such a bad job they left plenty of code in the html which identified me as
the originator of page which was "stolen"
This was great discourtesy as the perpetrator of this theft would lose
nothing from leaving the links to my page in, and could probably have easily
secured the permission of the original author of the paper to put it on
there sight had xe wished.
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Judy Evans
> Sent: 24 October 2002 19:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Internet research
>
>
> It is my opinion that as Larry said, our e-mails belong to us legally;
> are intellectual property.
>
> There was a case like this on another List; the same point of view was
> put there: I hope the person who asked respects the position as put
> and our views.
>
> Finally a US academic did quote e-mails from a List of which we are
> both members; she was attacked for it strongly, publicly. Quite
> rightly, too
>
>
>
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