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Subject:Re: Is framing theft? From:Mark Baker <mbaker -at- OMNIMARK -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:20:46 -0400
Yves Jeaurond wrote
>Issues such as fair use, collage and other techniques of expression hinge
on
>this debate... Yet the ethics involved are a little outside this forum's
>mandate. Please reply or add off-list. Thanks.
We'll let Eric decide, of course, but I don't see that ethics are outside
the purpose of this list. We've certainly discussed them before. In any
case, this issue is about more than ethics. Consider the implications if
your technical documentation is published on the web in XML form and
somebody comes along and mines your site for material to include in their
own. What is the impact in terms of intellectual property, brand identity,
company reputation, usability, liability, loss of advertising revenue, loss
of trademark status, loss of copyright protection, etc. Suppose you decide
to mine other people's sites to compose your documentation. What are the
implications in terms of referential integrity (will the thing you borrow
continue to exist or to say what it said when you borrowed it -- and if it
does change, do you want the changes or not), your liability, usability,
etc. etc.
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Mark Baker
Manager, Corporate Communications
OmniMark Technologies Corporation
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Gloucester, Ontario
Canada, K1J 9B8
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