[Air-L] a question about privacy protection and copyright in Internet research

[Radhika Gajjala]

good points

also if you are seeing something because you are a friend or in a circle
-that reqd the user to "accept" you - it may be considered pvt

(as in FB)



On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jeremy hunsinger <jeremy at tmttlt.com> wrote:

> mostly i support the view that documents published, like a web page or
> a comment, are published and as such are not really questions
> involving the rights of the author so much as the rights of the
> publisher.   this will depend of course, twitter for instance only
> reserves certain rights and reverts the rest to the authors.  as
> published documents, these comments basically parallel newspaper
> 'letter to the editor' comments more than the 'private conversation'
> that some researchers may imagine them as.  Note though that if you
> have to login to read them, then you might be entering a non-published
> arena.  As for international copyright concerns...  i'm pretty sure
> that you'll need to obtain permission if copyright is asserted, but
> here you should read the terms of use for the publisher, it may be
> that they have already obtained all the rights (like twitter does) and
> then reverted some, but still retain the right to distribute, so then
> you can see if they also allow you to redistribute, which many do, but
> some do not.   as for the original authors,  they have the rights of
> the author too, on top of copyright, which may mean that you cannot
> change their words or identity in any way for research purposes
> without their explicit permission to do so.  (in the u.s. we do not
> have the rights of the author in the same way that the e.u. does so
> this is less of an issue)  .  so yes, the thousands of researchers who
> have been assuming that anonymizing is a good thing, may have been
> doing a very bad thing, but as of yet, i've not heard of anyone suing
> a researcher for anonymizing or changing words.  anyway, i would treat
> these comments as a. public and published b. owned by who the terms of
> service says owned it  and c. ensure i have permission from the owners
> if appropriate.
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Radhika Gajjala
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