{"id":2766,"date":"2008-07-23T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T09:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/23\/a-question-of-publishing-ethic\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T09:17:30","slug":"a-question-of-publishing-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/23\/a-question-of-publishing-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question of Publishing Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a classic paper on the Quantum Zeno Effect<\/a> that I discuss in Chapter 5 of the book. The paper does two tests of the effect, and presents the results in two bar graphs. They also provide the data in tabular form.<\/p>\n

My question is this:<\/p>\n

\n

If I copy the data from the table, and make my own version of the graph, am I obliged to contact them and ask permission to duplicate their results in my book?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If I were copying their graphs directly, I would definitely contact them and ask permission, but I’m not as certain about using their data to make my own version of their graphs. <\/p>\n

Complicating matters, when I asked Kate about this, she replied “Why would you need to ask permission to reproduce figures? Isn’t that fair use?” I have no idea why it is, I just know that it’s What Is Done in these cases (having been contacted a few times for permission to reproduce stuff from papers I wrote).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

(Clarifying note: I’ll contact the group in question regardless, just to be polite, but I’m curious about whether I need<\/strong> to. Also, in this specific case, it’s probably a moot point, as the paper in question was work done for the US government, and is not subject to copyright, but I’m interested in this as a general matter.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a classic paper on the Quantum Zeno Effect that I discuss in Chapter 5 of the book. The paper does two tests of the effect, and presents the results in two bar graphs. They also provide the data in tabular form. My question is this: If I copy the data from the table, and… Continue reading A Question of Publishing Ethics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}