I endorse this post completely
Judy Evans
Cardiff, Wales (UK)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Arnold" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Internet research
> 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-----
> > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> > [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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