COPYRIGHT PANIC

Ralf Stephan ralf at ark.in-berlin.de
Sat Aug 21 19:50:44 CEST 2004


> it's copyright ? Where and by which law ?

You are not up to date. Collections are copyrightable, as well
as (I think) the database format.

> What,when submitters will claim copyright of their submitted sequences ?

Then they will be removed. So what? That's why some frequent submitters
save their work and publish themselves[*]. Where is yours?

>[rant]

Calm down. First, it is very unlikely that your horror scenario happens.
Even if, then it will be time enough to collect the pieces. Lastly, you
overestimate people's motivation capacity for a copy project.

ralf
[*] Collected conjectures at 
http://www.ark.in-berlin.de/conj.txt





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