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RE: st: RE: PS on Stata colours
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: RE: PS on Stata colours
Date
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:22:11 +0000
As worthless?
Nick
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcello Pagano
Sent: 15 February 2011 16:18
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: PS on Stata colours
In October 1984, Fred L. Worth, author of /The Trivia Encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trivia_Encyclopedia>/, /Super Trivia/,
and /Super Trivia II/, filed a $300 million lawsuit against the
distributors of /Trivial Pursuit/. He claimed that more than a quarter
of the questions in the game's Genus Edition had been taken from his
books, even to the point of reproducing typographical errors and
deliberately placed misinformation
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry>. One of the questions in
/Trivial Pursuit/ was "What was Columbo
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo_%28TV_series%29#The_.22Philip_Columbo.22_myth>'s
first name?" with the answer "Philip". That information had been
fabricated to catch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_trap> anyone
who might try to violate his copyright
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement>.^[5]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_Pursuit#cite_note-4>
Worth's arguments were rejected by the courts.
m.p.
On 2/15/2011 10:25 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> The numerical analyst L.J. Comrie faked some of the digits in his logarithm tables, as he was so annoyed by being ripped off repeatedly by plagiarists.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Allan Reese (Cefas)
>
> it sounds rather like the idea of putting
> duff information on maps so you can prove copyright.
>
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