Small house, big forum

[Andreas Kyriacou]

On Donnerstag, Februar 12, 2004, at 09:12  Uhr, David Nathan wrote:
> In the technical sense described by the correspondent, public domain
> materials have no legal protection, while much of the work that many
> of us do is in the public forum, ie put forward to be viewed and
> discussed, while retaining dissemination rights.

Authors who want to encourage others to make use of their creations
while retaining some intellectual property rights might want to
consider the creative commons approach. (For a quick intro see
http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/how1 .)

Obviously, the approach does not prevent web sites or other publicly
available data from being plagiarized. But it may nevertheless be a
workable approach also for web sites devoted to sharing linguistic
information.


Andreas