copyright and watermark

[Michael Engel]

Hello
Thank you very much for your valuable comments on my copyright question.

I am certainly on the safe side when I get the OK from the original
publisher and/or the author.

It looks as if the whole problem is much more complex as I even imagined.
Atomic coordinates are probably not the pure data as they seem to be, as we
measure intensities of the reflected X-rays and calculate the coordinates
from those. So the pure data are the intensities.

Despite the understandable need for protecting own data, I find it a little
bit doubtful that published data are not the correct data - addition of that
watermark mentioned by Frank Oellien. That goes in the wrong direction. That
resembles the practice of some people/companies to "not tell everything" in
published procedures in patents (and also publications).

In my oppinion, published data need to be true and reliable. Otherwise we
will come to the situation where we publish an abstract and a sentence like
"Send me a cheque and I will send you the real data." (Exaggerated, I hope.)

Off course, I do not think that Frank Oellien and his co-workers plan to do
so. I understand their intention well. I have also problems understanding
why some people (even already famous professors) cheat so much in not making
reference to other people's work.

It would be interesting if Frank Oellien could add some further comments on
that topic, e.g., the the outcome of that thesis, title, URL.

This watermark method has been recently discussed and used in published
pictures on the internet and I have heard some intentions/tests with text
files too (sorry, don't remember where I read it).

Does chemical data do get a watermark in the future ? How do we watermark a
synthesis ?

That's interesting and I hope for some further insights and comments.

Regards
Michael


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