[Corpora-List] (no subject) - USING OTHER PEOPLE'S RESEARCH WORK, DATA, OR METHODOLOGY

[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Hi Fatima/Mike
Sorry if someone else has already raised these points, but I have been  in Namibia for the past week,
running an intensive corpus workshop, and may not have read the emails in this thread in the correct sequence.

#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
b) it is easier to reply to a specific posting to a discussion-list if there is a 'subject' to reply to

#2 I think there is a difference between legal and ethical/professional considerations:
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
b) but ethically/professionally, I personally would always at least inform the author of what I was doing, and thank them for providing
stimulus/resource/direction for my own work.

#3 I certainly think it would be unethical, unprofessional (and also perhaps illegal?) to "claim it to be the developer teams' own work".
Surely some form of acknowledgement is required in such a situation, even if permission as such is not required?

Best
Ramesh

Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Visiting Academic Fellow, English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University, Birmingham, UK: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr/
Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network) project: http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/
Pre-Aston career details: http://www.btinternet.com/~ramesh28/



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Message: 13

Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 02:05:06 -0700 (PDT)

From: fatima zuhra <fateeshah at yahoo.com<mailto:fateeshah at yahoo.com>>

Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] (no subject)

To: Mike Scott <mike at lexically.net<mailto:mike at lexically.net>>

Cc: corpora at uib.no<mailto:corpora at uib.no>



Hi all,

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?

Thanks.



--- On Tue, 22/5/12, Mike Scott <mike at lexically.net<mailto:mike at lexically.net>> wrote:



From: Mike Scott <mike at lexically.net<mailto:mike at lexically.net>>

Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] (no subject)

To: corpora at uib.no<mailto:corpora at uib.no>

Received: Tuesday, 22 May, 2012, 12:22 PM



    IN my opinion, yes. If you make something public (publishing) you

    cannot pick & choose who will use that idea or those data.

    Similarly you cannot have back a gift once given.



    Cheers -- Mike



    On 22/05/2012 05:12, fatima zuhra wrote:



              I want to ask a question. If some scholar's work is

                published, can anyone use that work for a developmental

                project without the scholar's permission? Even the

                supervisor of the scholar?

    --

Mike Scott



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