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I did see a distressing comment on one Thomas Ikin's website, a fellow who's got an interesting theory on Roman map making<br>
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"(May 16, 2001) I find that a significant portion of material has been pirated for presentation elsewhere."<br>
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It is perhaps why scholars dont' want to put too much out there. I wonder how the thief could get away with calling it their own if it's published like this? Seems they could be called on it very quickly. Perhaps the process of getting research and work into print will always be the deciding factor for copyright. <p>Aulus, Legio XX.
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I had the entire FAQ section from Armamentarium ripped off by somebody and stuck on their website after the html had been cleansed of all references to its source and authors (which were internal in the html as well as explicit on the page). I could get no reply from their email address and just got a big shrug from their ISP who basically didn't give a damn. As it is in the US and I am in the UK I'm not about to go to law over it (since Armamentarium has no funds it would be a bit difficult) but I am reserving the right to make an 'example' of it at some point in the future: that might catch the ISP's attention ;-)<br>
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Would publishing as PDF's help? Can they be normally integrated into a website? <p>Greets<BR>
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Not really - you can strip the content out of PDFs without too much effort. Even if you include the content as TIFFs or JPEGs, you could still OCR them after extraction. Not really an obstacle for the determined content thief. Downloading PDFs also tends to be slower than web pages.<br>
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The silly thing is that most people who have websites will be only too happy to allow quotation if the source is made clear and permission has been asked.<br>
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There have been digital watermarks that can be added to PDF files, and I've run across websites where the text cannot be cut/pasted (usually newspapers) and sometimes not even printed, though I don't know how those latter are done (ok, so I need a snippet of a news report occasionally).<br>
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True, they won't deter the determined person but they make it a lot harder. <p>Aulus, Legio XX.
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From time to time I come across parts of my website on other sites, usually without credits and at times explicit claims of authorship. There is seldom a reaction when you mail them asking the original source to be credited.<br>
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... but!<br>
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It is disheartening to be "ripped off" by another, especially after having done so much research to be quite correct.<br>
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