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 Tue Oct 03, 2006 19:28 pm That’s the Internet… |
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Hi
All we know, the Internet is the open world. We are free to make public (almost) all what we want.
That’s amazing, attractive, creative, etc.
And - also -we know that all what we publish for open access – our photographs, pictures, stories, texts, ideas, parts/results of our work, etc – can be stolen and re-published by someone else. Some another person, who you never will see. From somewhere...
Sometimes that’s funny, sometimes makes you proud  , sometimes is very frustrating, isn't it?
How do you take that? Those pluses and those minuses.
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| Tue Oct 03, 2006 19:39 pm Internet |
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Hi Tamara,
What you say is obviously quite true but I don't think anonymity should make anyone less scrupulous than when they are known.
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| Tue Oct 03, 2006 23:07 pm Internet |
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Hi Alan
When it is the true scrupulosity - yes, Alan, you’re right.
But, alas, net-anonymity (all those playing with nicknames, use of proxies, dynamic IPs, etc) is still VERY attractive for those people whose 'good behaviour' - in reality! - is based only on fears to be punished.
That’s the difference.
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| Tue Oct 03, 2006 23:17 pm That’s the Internet… |
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| Tamara wrote: | | And - also -we know that all what we publish for open access – our photographs, pictures, stories, texts, ideas, parts/results of our work, etc – can be stolen and re-published by someone else. Some another person, who you never will see. |
Tamara, if somebody lifts text from the web to publish it as their own ideas on their website, they shoot themselves in the foot. All it takes is a click to find out who the original author of that is...
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| Tue Oct 03, 2006 23:30 pm That’s the Internet… |
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| Torsten wrote: | | All it takes is a click to find out who the original author of that is... |
Yes, if you talk only about texts copied literally.
| Tamara wrote: | | photographs, pictures, ..., ideas |
But my initial question was - how do you take that.
You cannot change people, cannot devote plenty of your lifetime to "defensing your author's rights",...
There is the saying: "If you can't change the situation, just change an attitude toward it".
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| Tue Oct 03, 2006 23:59 pm The law of increasing returns |
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Well, what I was trying to say is this: Your thoughts and ideas are always defended (please mind the difference between defense and defend) by the law of increasing returns. You can spend time trying to "defend your author's rights" or you can focus on the really important issues.
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