[Lexicog] Re: Who owns your lexicon?

[lingamish7]

Gerard,

Thanks for the reply.  Coincidently, I started playing with Wiktionary
yesterday.  It seems like an obvious idea, I just spent a lot of time
confused about how the thing works.  But I will play with the "Z"
version next week and see if the light comes on!

You wrote:
> 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.

In most of the applications I forsee this isn't really a problem but an
opportunity for language communities to take databases and expand on
them or use them as the basis for a variety of publications.

Have a great weekend.

David Ker
SIL Mozambique
http://lexiquepro.wordpress.com <http://lexiquepro.wordpress.com>

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