Dear R Developers,
Recently filed (and dismissed ;) ) law suit by Astrolabe against tz
database developers caused a lot of media-press and discussions and
created some kind of precedence in the USA [3]. But also it imho showed
that similar attacks might happen in the future, and possibly against
Yaroslav,
coming from an experimental field, I use options 4 and 4a:
4. I measure the data myself, so I am the copyright holder.
4a. I publish data sets that are given to me in order to publish by the
person(s) who did the measurement. This is properly annotated in the
authors field.
So far,
2. we considered all datasets factual data thus not copyrightable (in
USA? around the globe?)
This is definitely true in the US, but not true globally. I have no
idea under which jurisdiction a lawsuit would apply.
Hadley
--
Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of
On 4/3/2012 2:00 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
2. we considered all datasets factual data thus not copyrightable (in
USA? around the globe?)
This is definitely true in the US, but not true globally. I have no
idea under which jurisdiction a lawsuit would apply.
I'd be careful with the
I somewhat agree with Spencer -- as I have mentioned, the recent precedence
with tz database shows that such claims would not be taken as ungrounded right
away and things could easily go all the way to court -- and that might be a
really costly endeavor regardless who is right or wrong. Proving
I somewhat agree with Spencer -- as I have mentioned, the recent precedence
with tz database shows that such claims would not be taken as ungrounded right
away and things could easily go all the way to court -- and that might be a
really costly endeavor regardless who is right or wrong.
;-) Let's check where factual ends and fictional/personal/etc starts
and how easy to tell.
Are survey data asking for answers to specifically crafted original
questions (i.e. not just age/race/etc) factual? e.g.
\title{The Chatterjee--Price Attitude Data}
\description{
From a survey of the
