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

Subject: RE: RE: How Many Trees? (WAS: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue)
From: Gene Kim-Eng <gene -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 06:43:35 -0700


In that case, you'd best consult a lawyer on this, because under the law,
you do *not* "own" information simply by virtue of having been the one
to research it. You can only own what you create, and information that
can be obtained simply by counting or observing something that already
exists in nature is not "created" (in effect, you got it "second-hand" from
whatever god or creator you may happen to believe in). The only way to
preserve your exclusivity on researched information is to keep it secret
and not publish it.

Gene Kim-Eng



At 08:10 AM 5/6/2003 -0500, Gillespie, Stephen (Contractor) wrote:


I'm not a lawyer, either, Kim (coulda been one, but not quite sorry enough
;-)
But to the point I was trying to make (and this for your fellow Canuck, Mark
Barker as well), there's a big diff between my written expression of the
research on 'how many trees' and a hockey game score from reading the
newspaper box scores. The former information, I OWN - the inherent
creativity you have referred to is that I did the research, I *created* the
information (vs. getting it second-hand).



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