On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:21:44 GMT Kyler Laird wrote:

"R.Hubbell" writes:

Uh, when a guy makes the gathered info FREE on a website, AND publishes
it in a book, I cannot fault him.....

Since you don't seem to know what's going on I will tell you. The camping
site you say he's hosting is waiting to be filled in by anyone willing to
fill it in. Right now it's empty. Once you've put that up on his site
it's his (see the copyright on his site) then he creates a book from other
peoples' contributions and he collects the $$$.

Setting aside his poor socialization, do you really fault him for this
process? It isn't as though he tricks people into giving him the rights


I remember back when Usenet FAQs were getting pilfered and turned into books.
There are too many contributors for just one to claim ownership. It's stuff
like this that turned a lot of people away from Usenet.



to their content, is it? Is it any different from what AirNav does?


I don't know what airnav does with that? are they making books from it
too?


Of course I would love to see a community-based system (and I'd be happy
to host it) to collect such comments and make them available to everyone

Someone's already collecting the camping info and has offered to host it.



to use, but I'm having trouble faulting him for fully-informed people
choosing to turn over the rights to their comments.


I think it's fine if people want to write his book for him. I don't think
the other poster grasped that. Maybe they did. It's cheesy to me to have
other people write your content, slap your name on it and publish. It's
akin to plagiarism or maybe it is plagiarism. IANAL.



R. Hubbell


--kyler