RE: How Many Trees? (WAS: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue)

["Gillespie, Stephen (Contractor)" <Stephen -dot- Gillespie -at- Persnet -dot- Navy -dot- Mil>]

in reply to Gene Kim-Eng, who says
"Creativity" would refer to the actual word-for-word expression.  If I wrote
a detailed report on a Yosemite tree count study process and its results,
you could
grab the numbers and say "there are 10,380 pine trees," and be ok, but if
you lifted whole paragraphs or chapters of my detailed report and
republished them with your name on them instead of saying something like,
"according to a study report published by....there are 10,380 pine trees,"
with the intent of conveying to the reader the impression that you had
written the words you would not.

Steve replies,
See, that's where I make a disconnect - the fact (as previously ascertained
by someone else) that "there are 10,380 pine trees in Yosemite" is just the
kind of specific (but) NON-common knowledge that most people would NOT know
or assume - thus, it's copyrightable. Likewise, if person came along and
took the whole body of (someone else's) research.

Steve G.

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