From: Kent Gibbs (kent_gibbs@yahoo.com)
Date: 09/26/03-05:14:33 PM Z
Please emphasize, 'original work'. Not sharing information about
processes that are already much older than most of us.
--- Kate Mahoney <kateb@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Here in New Zealand copyright is inherent in original work - you
> don't need
> to do anything to copyright.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Niranjan Patel" <niranjan.patel@worldnet.att.net>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 8:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Copyright
>
>
> > It seems to me that people are mixing up what is legal and what is
> ethical.
> > They do not always go hand-in-hand. Copyright is a legal issue.
> In order
> > for someone to violate your copyright you need to have
> "copyrighted" the
> > material which most contributing here do not. While it may be
> unethical
> to
> > use someone else's ideas in a book without properly acknowledging
> the
> source
> > (here the editor/publisher is probably as guilty as the author) it
> is not
> > necessarily illegal. You could lose your job, lose respect among
> colleagues
> > or may be no one will offer you a new book deal (unless you work at
> New
> York
> > Times, that is) if you are caught plagiarizing material that is not
> legally
> > protected by a copyright. But I doubt if you will have civil
> liabilities.
> >
> > I guess if one has a unique knowledge about something and is
> worried
> > that someone if going to rip it off, one should try to publish as
> original
> > work first instead of putting it out on the list.
> >
> > Niranjan.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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