Posted by ms. b. on February 1, 2001, at 3:04:10
In reply to Re: Using screen names, posted by Dr. Bob on January 25, 2001, at 1:40:13
Let me say before I jump into this already muddied water, I read Dr. Bob's article today, easily downloadable in PDF format. It's very well-done, and is part of a new area of research on the internet and its impact on social interaction, specifically group-therapy models of support and education.
So, in plain Latin, Caveat emptor, let the buyer beware! Don't post if you MUST HAVE and want to maintain total and complete rights to your own ideas and wording, etc. It's like the old bumper sticker abortion-rights folks, myself included, find so right on: "Don't like abortion? Don't have one!" Don't want Dr. Bob to use your words or handle? Don't post! and stay safe from (some imagined) harm.
Sorry in advance, by the way, if this offends anyone...
I personally thank Dr. Bob for everything he has done for this community of souls, who obviously NEED such a forum. Where else can we find pretty reliable information, solace and support, laughs, and yet another venue for compulsive, late night/early morning searching, reading, writing, etc. etc. ? I ask you...
Copyright law, even before the internet, has always been a very complex set of regulations and restrictions. The purpose of copyright initially was to spawn creativity (as a "national interest"), and thus to protect writers, inventors, musicians, researchers, when they published or put their work into the public realm. In my line of work - museums and other archives wishing to hold onto their rights as owners of works of art or other images in their collections - we hang onto the fact that so far, only one or two real image copyright infringement copyright cases have come up (cf: the famous Bridgeman case), and no word yet about fair use of images which are copied from books and then used for educational purposes, or are altered and used in a different way, etc. So until a matter comes up in a court of law, we wait and see.
Dr. Bob's caveats at registration and elsewhere on this web site are enough, IMO, to protect him in a court case, should anyone go totally gonzo (sorry), and try to sue. His research is valid and important, and he is not trying to rip anybody off, or use them for his "little experiments." This is the stuff of paranoia, and if you're susceptible to such musings, stay off the internet...
Please! Enough! Somebody help me, I can't shut up! (.....)
:-]
B.
> > Perhaps a short statement, when one first signs up, and gets a user/passwd, about this board being a "public place" and therefor the need to not use your real name if you don't want others to be able to assoc. posts with real people.
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> For a while now, the registration page has said, under where you enter a name, "Does not have to be your real name; consider your privacy."
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> https://dr-bob.securesites.com/cgi-bin/pb/signup.pl
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> > My guess is that if Dr. Bob writes again about PB (and I hope he will), he will never again use a screen name.
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> My guess is that you're right. :-)
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> > are you using our screen names? If so I'll like to change mine.
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> You might feel more comfortable doing that anyway, just re-register under a different (and unused) name.
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> Bob
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