[Lexicog] Re: Who owns your lexicon?

[David Frank]

I don't remember who said this about "markers" being in dictionaries, but I 
will give a try at answering the question about it.

The idea here is that these markers are very difficult to identify, and that 
is how they work. I believe the reference here is to something bogus that is 
deliberately added to a dictionary or some other kind of collection. The 
reason these markers are added to the collection is to be able to prove that 
the collection was copied, such as in court. The idea is that if collection 
B is suspected of having copied collection A en masse, the compilers can 
look to see if the markers from collection A showed up in collection B, 
proving it was a copy. The way to avoid getting caught in such a sting is to 
avoid copying someone else's collection improperly.

-- David Frank


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan F. Ullrich" <jfu at centrum.cz>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:13 AM
Subject: RE: [Lexicog] Re: Who owns your lexicon?

> The problem with the copyright of facts (like lex icological content
> is, that you CANNOT copyright it. The best that you can do is
> copyright a collection. This is why you often find "markers" in such
> collections; they tend to indicate that a collection was copied when
> it is found in another resource.

What do such markers look like?

Jan 



 
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