Karl Simanonok wrote:
> But Jochem, who apparently writes from the Netherlands, for some reason
> worries that people are being asked to violate American copyright
> laws. Jochem, maybe in Holland it is possible to copyright other people's
> names, email addresses, and other publicly available information about
> them, but that's not the case in the still-somewhat-free USA. Copyright
> law protects the creators and owners of wordstrings and art, not the sole
> right to pass along public information. It's not an issue here.
Actually, copyright also protects collections of free data if those data
become valuable due to the fact that they are collections. This means
that it is still possible to grab a few enmailadreesses etc, but the
systematic harvesting makes use of the fact that it is a collection and
is therefore not allowed.
Just think of a search engine. The links they have can not be
copyrighted, but the collection of links as a whole can. Or maybe it is
called database collection whatever law, but it is commonly refered to
as copyright.
> Fortunately not everyone is as cynical as the couple of people who
> complained of 'cheap code', as if a short little contest threatens to take
> billable hours away from them or something. Christ, I wonder if they
> object to the custom tags in the Developer's Exchange, too?
I don't. Actually, there are some customtags by my writing freely
available on the internet. But posting them at the Developer's Exchange
doesn't make you loose copyright as it did with your contest before you
changed the rules.
> >..< Those of you who have been following the recent discussions on
> CF-Jobs about 'resume and portfolio websites' know there are more and more
> ColdFusion programmers looking for work these days, with some of them
> finding it difficult to set themselves apart from the crowd with their
> qualifications. Can you think of a better way of proving your capabilities
> to a prospective employer than winning a worldwide ColdFusion coding
> contest? If I were an employer, that would definitely look good on your
> resumé to me! That gives me an idea: if you win my contest, I will mail
> you a hardcopy letter attesting to your proven ColdFusion skills to add to
> your portfolio of accomplishments, and I will serve as a personal reference
> to that effect as well, anytime you need me to in the future.
Now that is something usefull for some of us. There was a time when I
did some jobs on that basis.
Jochem
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