Hi Fred Mine at least are almost all original!! But I agree , it is pretty small minded of people. Not a lot of vision. All Coaching ideas surely should be made public domain , if the USATF wants good coaches.
Steve Bennett www.oztrack.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Fred Finke Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: t-and-f: Coach Dunton running afoul of copyright? I don't want to throw a fly in the ointment, but has anybody ever visitied some of the coaches sites in England or Austrailia? They put up EVERYTHING! Who fights their copyrights? Fred Finke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Coach Dunton running afoul of copyright? I'm going to suggest a possible rationale (not that I agree with it) that is NOT based on legal copyright considerations. This comes directly from an internal dilemma in the company that I work for. You have something- an innovative way of doing something- that you wish to share so that more people in your company (or in the ranks of fellow coaches) can benefit from it. However, someone in the security apparatus of your organization comes up with a decision that the very nature of the topic- an innovative way of doing something- gives your company (or the U.S. Federation) a competitive advantage over your competitors (external to your company or your organization). So the internal "police" slap all kinds of bureacratic security levels for data access, to minimize the possibility of your competitors getting a hold of it and adopting the same innovative approaches that you've developed. Unfortunately it makes it so hard for "internal" people who NEED to benefit from it to get access to it, that the innovative techniques remain stifled and "siloed" within a narrow band of knowledgeable people who have come across it. Is that a possibility here?- does the U.S. Federation want to go "secretive" with out-of-the-box coaching thinking so that only the U.S. benefits, with the inherent risks that only 2 or 3 U.S. coaches might even find out about it, ... or is it just a pure dollars and cents thing with selling videotapes (pretty PETTY it would seem)? Do videotape rights fees mean more to the U.S. Federation than the results that the coaching techniques are intended to produce? Shouldn't the U.S. Federation be willing to GIVE this information to U.S. coaches? Either way, USATF's committees need to visit the topic of access to coaching/training information. With the U.S. being such a far-flung country, overly aggressive security clamp-downs could stifle innovation (or the sharing of innovative approaches) to the extent that it could effectively kill off any synergies to be gained by open coast-to-coast discussion and comparison among U.S. coaches. RT
