18th April 2011, 05:49 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:dino from what I want and from what I understand, you are attempting to enhance your publication with the work of others you found laying around. You possibly see this incorporation in your publication as an act of archaeological preservation of the record particularly due to the fact that you cannot find them. One day no one will be able to find you, wow. The question is whether you see the Acts and international conventions on copyright as an infringement or whether they should be used by archaeologists. I think that if people valued archaeological information as copyright they would be more concerned with the preservation of archaeological data than they currently are. Hence your situation.
Don?t ask me what to do.(don?t use it) I think the answer is that archaeology should embrace copyright, push it on even more than it is- get an extra special 500 years for archaeological data or something like that but I don?t know how to make it pay big time..yet. Currently I have not signed the oasis forms. Gave up smoking years ago but still not feeling the benifits?
Seems a bit lame publishing everything else that's ever been dug in a quarry but not the barrow "cos we couldn't find the author of the report to get his permission". Plan B is of course to hunt down the archive (which I may have located) and gratuitously re-write it from scratch to a modern standard....gets around the copyright issue?