RE: Transferring information

From: Paul Grace (paulgrace@lookoutranch.com)
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 01:38:15 UTC

  • Next message: Thomas Goodey: "Transferring information"

    You would be right, except for the fact that each user of the SpaceTrack
    site expressly agrees(among other things) "not to transfer any data or
    technical information received under the agreement, including the analysis
    of tracking data, to any other entity without the express approval of the
    DoD."
    
    So by going to that site, you have agreed not to transfer the information to
    this site.
    
    "Direct Copy" has nothing to do with it.
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Thomas Goodey [mailto:thomas@flyingkettle.com] 
    Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 18:01
    To: Seesat List
    Subject: Transferring information
    
    On 4 Aug 2009 at 6:56, Robert Holdsworth wrote:
    
    > ... we are not supposed to post info from that site [Space-Track] in here
    owing to
    > restrictions. However I think it can safely be said... 
    
    Who said that? Of course you can publish any information you like, anywhere,
    no 
    matter where you get it from. You cannot directly copy the mode of
    expression 
    of copyrighted information, of course, but the information itself is not 
    protected by copyright. In other words, if it is a fact (or even a mistaken 
    fact) that satellite X is on an orbit specified by the numbers A, B, and C,
    you 
    can freely publish that fact (or mistake) anywhere you choose, expressed in 
    your own words.
    
    Thomas Goodey
    
    
    Theories, theories, myriads upon myriads of
    them, streamed over me like wind-borne leaves,
    like the contents of some titanic paper-factory
    flung aloft by the storm, like dust-clouds in 
    the hurricane advance of the mind.
    
    ---- Olaf Stapledon, 'Last Men in London'
    
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