My point was not about permissions. It even assumes that we will
receive all the permissions we want. It's about why we are better
suited to carry this material than Northwestern U. It's about the
ethics of a Borg-ism that indiscriminately vacuums up all the material
it can find.
Ec
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
I think Nina Stratton was going to ask, but I
could've misunderstood what
she was talking about.
Perhaps it would help to ask someone with more press experience to talk to
them, so they may have heard about the Wikipedian: David?
On 1/12/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>On 12/01/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
>
>
>>What I do wonder about is the ethical question around wholesale copying
>>of another site filled with free material. They have a role too in
>>whatever niche they find. They are already in compliance with our
>>mission to keep such information free. They have a role in the open
>>access market. There can be valid reasons for the wholesale copying.of
>>these databases; preservation redundancy could be one. Still, just
>>because an act is legal does not mean that that same act is ethical.
>>
>>
>Has anyone, uh, called them up, said "hi" and asked for anything
>important we would need to know to mirror the maps on Commons? I would
>be very surprised if we didn't have a pile of contributors and
>supporters at any university of decent size ...
>
>Of course, attribution as reasonably desired would be polite to detail
>on the image page - "thank you" costs very little and goes a long way.
>