19th August 2009, 02:39 PM
Yup... all my pages have © and there are strict terms and conditions for derivative work. An example would be the slow methodical search I did on Local Societies.. (took over 2 months off and on) Now I could have cheated and used the Current Archaeology List or the CBA list.. but that's just WRONG.. and... you end up copying any mistakes and dead links along with it. so I started with a list of every county in the UK.. and one by one, searched for archaeology groups in each county.. still missed some, but at least I knew that what was on my database was
a) up to date
b) accurate
c) non-derivative
I often leave a tell-tale in my datasets so I can prove copyright - a misspelled word, or an unusual way of writing a phone number. just one.. one that is hard to spot, but leaves no doubt as to derivation.
So perhaps I should contact the web-host and discuss copyright breach - they could then have the option of removing their website if they do not remove the offending work. The funny thing would be, that they will spend just as much time doing all this as if they had put in some real work in the first place.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi
a) up to date
b) accurate
c) non-derivative
I often leave a tell-tale in my datasets so I can prove copyright - a misspelled word, or an unusual way of writing a phone number. just one.. one that is hard to spot, but leaves no doubt as to derivation.
So perhaps I should contact the web-host and discuss copyright breach - they could then have the option of removing their website if they do not remove the offending work. The funny thing would be, that they will spend just as much time doing all this as if they had put in some real work in the first place.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi