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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Fatima/Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry if someone else has already raised these points, but I have been in Namibia for the past week,
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<p class="MsoNormal">running an intensive corpus workshop, and may not have read the emails in this thread in the correct sequence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#1 It is important to specify a “SUBJECT” in any email: a) a blank ‘subject’ field may be treated as spam/junk by some mailer systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">b) it is easier to reply to a specific posting to a discussion-list if there is a ‘subject’ to reply to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#2 I think there is a difference between legal and ethical/professional considerations:
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<p class="MsoNormal">a) legally, it may or may not be OK to use someone else’s published work/data/methodology without their permission – I’m not sure
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<p class="MsoNormal">b) but ethically/professionally, I personally would always at least inform the author of what I was doing, and thank them for providing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">stimulus/resource/direction for my own work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#3 I certainly think it would be unethical, unprofessional (and also perhaps illegal?) to “claim it to be the developer teams' own work”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Surely some form of acknowledgement is required in such a situation, even if permission as such is not required?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ramesh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ramesh Krishnamurthy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Visiting Academic Fellow, English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aston University, Birmingham, UK: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network) project: http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pre-Aston career details: http://www.btinternet.com/~ramesh28/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Message: 13<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 02:05:06 -0700 (PDT)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From: fatima zuhra <<a href="mailto:fateeshah@yahoo.com">fateeshah@yahoo.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] (no subject)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To: Mike Scott <<a href="mailto:mike@lexically.net">mike@lexically.net</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Cc: <a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If someone is assigned a research project by some organization (who is paying money for that), can he/she use other's research work, data or methodology without the permission of the researcher? And moreover, claim it to be the developer
teams' own work?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">--- On Tue, 22/5/12, Mike Scott <<a href="mailto:mike@lexically.net">mike@lexically.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From: Mike Scott <<a href="mailto:mike@lexically.net">mike@lexically.net</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] (no subject)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To: <a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Received: Tuesday, 22 May, 2012, 12:22 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> IN my opinion, yes. If you make something public (publishing) you<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> cannot pick & choose who will use that idea or those data.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Similarly you cannot have back a gift once given. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Cheers -- Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> On 22/05/2012 05:12, fatima zuhra wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> I want to ask a question. If some scholar's work is<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> published, can anyone use that work for a developmental<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> project without the scholar's permission? Even the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> supervisor of the scholar?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> -- <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Mike Scott<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">***<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If you publish research which uses WordSmith, do let me know so I can include it at<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:mike@lexically.net">mike@lexically.net</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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