{"id":1102,"date":"2005-10-17T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2005-10-17T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T22:20:13","slug":"the-publishing-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/10\/17\/the-publishing-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Publishing Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new LA Times article<\/a> about the controversy<\/a> over the discovery of a possible tenth planet. As those of you who read the original article know, the controversy arose when Michael Brown from Caltech was scooped in the discovery of this object and then later noticed that the “scoop”ers, led by Professor Jose Luis Ortiz, had visited a website which contained information about where Brown and coworkers were pointing their telescope. Interestingly, here is what Professor Ortiz had to say:<\/p>\n

\nOrtiz argues he has done nothing wrong, and the data he found using the Google search engine should be considered public and thus free to use.
\n“If \u2026 somebody uses Google to find publicly available information on the Internet and Google directs to a public Web page, that is perfectly legitimate,” Ortiz wrote in an e-mail to The Times. “That is no hacking or spying or anything similar.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting line of reasoning. Of course the real problem is not that someone accessed the public information but that no acknowledgement of this access to this information was made in Professor Ortiz and coworkers communications. One thought I had (yeah sometimes I have those things!) was whether the fact that this information was publicly accessible mean that this information was “published” in the same way that preprints are “published” or information submitted to a database is “published?” Well probably not, but it seems we could probably construct an instance which is even closer to this “published” line. Consider that a challenge \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new LA Times article about the controversy over the discovery of a possible tenth planet. As those of you who read the original article know, the controversy arose when Michael Brown from Caltech was scooped in the discovery of this object and then later noticed that the “scoop”ers, led by Professor Jose Luis Ortiz, … <\/p>\n

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