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Yes, anything published without password protection in the internet
is public, but generally not public domain (this is often
misunderstood).<br>
Normally if you summarize other people's thougts and writings that
is not your own generated content you give a source information.<br>
<br>
This must be so, since nobody would create websites spending hours
in creating content if anyone could recycle this in an easy way,
giving no source information and claiming an own copyright. There
would be just recyclers and no new content.<br>
And sometimes I see ideas or content copied from my page (sometimes
just copy and paste without changing anything). Of course this is
not very amusing.<br>
<br>
Even Wikipedia is not "public domain" but "creative commons".<br>
<br>
But I actually don't know the license system of the REPP servers,
list owners and users.<br>
And this stuff is not my matter of concern.<br>
<br>
Of course I write this in a point of view of a webmaster, not as a
member of this list.<br>
<br>
Sorry for being really "offtopic" to biogas discussion.<br>
But if user postings are copied, summarized and translated this may
be of concern for every single user.<br>
If I would have a very good idea, and I would like to discuss this,
I would not do this in the field of public domain.<br>
It also depends who uses the information. Is it a commercial
website? Or another REPP list group?<br>
<br>
In my point of view there should be at least a link to the REPP
archive page stating where the original content is taken from. So
there would be also a benefit for the original list.<br>
<br>
REPP list postings is exclusive content generated by each single
user.<br>
<br>
If it can be copied, summarized and translated by anyone in any way,
it's no more exclusive content.<br>
Then it's public domain. This is the point you should become aware
of.<br>
<br>
And if it's public domain, just tell me! I wrote that my english
board is not very active yet, but I could post some summaries,
leading to duplicate content but who cares! ;-)<br>
Forget the last 2 sentences, just a bad joke pointing to the problem
I talk about.<br>
<br>
I hope I didn't bore you with this stuff.<br>
<br>
Markus<br>
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Am 30.11.2010 22:23, schrieb Alexander Eaton:
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Thanks Marcus for the additional thoughts. I think we may be able
to avoid this issues bu summarizing questions and responses, and
attempting to outline differing thoughts or conflicts surrounding
certain issues. As I understand it, anything I post to this forum
is public, and aside from egregious plagiary or slander, recycling
this information would be OK. I do understand your concerns
regarding attribution, or directly quoting anyone in a translation
situation. This may warrant further discussion, and there will
likely be some trial and error. <br>
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Saludos,<br>
<br>
Alex <br>
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