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- From: lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Help for Technical Report from CMU
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:51:55 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <58285@dime.cs.umass.edu> connolly@piglet.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly) writes:
- >
- >Let's face it, people simply are not going to comb through tens of
- >thousands of technical reports (or at least titles) per year from all
- >the organizations that do research in a given field in the hopes of
- >finding the very first mention of an idea.
- >
-
- I agree, but when the author of the TR ("A") sends author "B" a copy
- of the TR and says "please reference my work in future papers," does
- "B" has an obligation to abide by these wishes? Moreso than if an
- author "C" approaches "B" and says "we thought about this in our lab
- years ago, and have documentation to prove it, but we thought it was
- not worth publishing in any format; please reference us with an
- (unpublished observation) footnote" ?
-
- These things actually happen, I'm not making them up ... its all part
- of the slippery slope of intellectual priority (and for patentable
- technologies, intellectual property). And with electronic TR's on FTP
- sites, the waters muddy even more.
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