12th April 2011, 07:24 PM
Copyright is primarily an economic right. In determining what use might be made of someone else's work, repeatablility is a low test: the fact that someone could recreate an elevation of a building by re-measuring is not a justification for them re-suing someone else's (the 'sweat of the brow' concept), and the level of originality need not be high (as long as some process of selection or creativity is required). So in the geophysics case copyright may have been breached.
But that is a side issue to due acknowledgement of others' work: this case would be a clear breach of the IfA code of conduct 1.5.
You can't stop someone re-using your data, with acknowledgement; you have some limited protection against the date, or your interpretation, being misrepresented.
But that is a side issue to due acknowledgement of others' work: this case would be a clear breach of the IfA code of conduct 1.5.
You can't stop someone re-using your data, with acknowledgement; you have some limited protection against the date, or your interpretation, being misrepresented.