[Lexicog] Re: Who owns your lexicon?

[Erin McKean]

They are called 'Mountweazels' (or sometimes 'nihilartikels', although 
that's probably a hoax). More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilartikel

Erin

David Frank wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 <mailto:jfu%40centrum.cz>>
> To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com 
> <mailto:lexicographylist%40yahoogroups.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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