Whenever you write something, you own the copyright to it such -- even
these posts are the IP of the individual poster and they own the copyright to
the contents. Yahoo does not own it, the group owner does not own
it and in the Yahoo TOS, this is so stated.
In another group that suffers from overt estrogen overloaded, 1 person
wrote a guide, lifted whole posts of other members and put them in her guide
(without credit or permission) that she sold and was called on it. The
person who was charging for the information had to refund money and revise her
guide to be strictly and exclusively her own words. That is an example of
copyright violation.
I use and quote George C Lane and his application of the stochastic formula
all the time and it is NOT a violation of copyright because the settings are
mine that I have played around with, I give credit where I have learned
something from someone else such as David Elliott about stochastics settings,
etc., and don't lift entire paragraphs or words in the same series as their
works. These are not copyright violations. These come under the fair
and free use concept.
If I am discussing something from a trading book or manual that is
copyrighted and put it into my own words even though it is not my original
idea, that is not a violation of copyright.
If I write a book or prepare a PP presentation and pass the work off as my
own when it is based on someone else's work and the charts are THEIRS I lifted
entirely, word for word or exactly the same indicator settings, other than my
own stochastic settings I've developed, and sell it, that is a violation of
copyright.
The two elements are: passing stuff off as your own when you copied
it from someone else and selling it as your own idea.
Judith
From: Barry Scarborough
<razzbarry@xxxxxxxxx.us>
To:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 10:32:28
PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re:
COPYRIGHT
No. It appears there is a lot of confusion on copyright laws. A good
discussion is at http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Copyrights. OF course
this
isn't official but it is an easier read than the law books.
People like
Wilder published his works so others could benefit from
his discoveries.
What the copyright laws do is prevent someone from
copying his work and
selling it. But the intellectual property he
disclosed is for our use. Why
else would he publish it?
Barry
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxx
ps.com, "binjobingo" <binjobingo@ ...> wrote:
>
> Does
referring to Wilder's Relative strength Indicator,or Lane's
> Stochastics,
or Chande's Vidya & so on lead to copyright violation?
>
> Say
one reads An Author's book & am not able to write AFL for the
>
Indicators & so ask the forum members to write it for me Is it
>
copyright violation?
>
> If one give a link to the Website say some
other website which
> explains the parameters & use of the said
"indicator" but the
website
> may not be owned by the Author himself
does it lead to copyright
> violation ?
>
> If it is so I
think all the forums would close down & nobody would
> discuss their
trading strategy since trading strategies use some
> Indicator by some
author.
>
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