In message <00a501c7c7f1$06fbcec0$22368d56@Nick>, at 22:34:01 on Mon, 16
Jul 2007, Nick Landau <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Chris's email said that:
>
>"I think you may find the following paper of interest.
>http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/jun/wp-136.pdf"
>
>When I looked directly at the pdf on the Statewatch site there is
>nothing to indicate that they are a library and it is not a document
>that they have published.
"State watch - reporting on Civil Liberties in the EU"
http://www.statewatch.org/news/
... then a list of news stories, with links to other people's documents.
The one in question being:
EU-DATA PROTECTION: Article 29 Working Party (national Data Protection
Commissioners) Opinion: On the concept of personal data (pdf)
>The format is exactly the same as on the EU website.
It *is* the EU document!
>In fact, Statewatch says that:
>
>"_All the material_, design etc. on this website is copyrighted by
>Statewatch. Material may be used on the condition that the source is
>acknowledged."
Well, perhaps they need a subeditor to review that statement, but it's
patently absurd that they could have written the hundreds of documents
there, most of whose sources are clearly annotated.
>Clearly as this document is an EU document it cannot be their copyright.
>
>They go on to say that "Statewatch Is not responsible for the content
>of external websites and inclusion of a link does not constitute an
>endorsement."
>
>They are clearly not responsible for this EU document - so I am not
>quite sure why they have included this on their own website rather than
>given a link to the EU document.
They normally take a copy of the documents and put them on their own
website, rather than linking to an external website. This may be because
several of the documents they "discover" have a history of being
un-published (and some are never formally published by their authors,
and Statewatch puts up a leaked and unique copy).
>Of course, they could privately archive it so that if the EU deleted it
>from their website they still have a copy.
>
>My question still stands.
They have not "published it as their own".
>And, of course, if a website link is just given then the reasonable
>assumption would be that Statewatch is the publisher.
It would be a wrong assumption.
--
Roland Perry
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