I must be missing something. The whole purpose of a scientific conference is to share what you've found. If you have a proprietary result that you consider a trade secret, simply don't present that at a conference. Or say-but-don't-say, if the conference allows that. In fact, anything you say is recorded in someone's head, even if official or unofficial recording is forbidden.
Regarding data being copied and used without attribution, that's even more puzzling to me. I may copy your data and try to publish a paper. How is that different from me just making numbers out of the blue? Aren't people in the medical field supposed to have records of their "measurements", whatever that is (e.g. patient records of blood sample)? Regarding plainly copying the slides, I find that laughable. First, making slides from scratch is WAY easier than trying to make slides from a picture or even worse from a video. Second, if the conference has an official website, with the videos and maybe even the slides, and everything is timestamped, it will make life of these "slide thieves" even harder: anybody with a Google search can find the earlier author, and shame the thief. Don't referees do Google searches to educate themselves on the specific sub-sub-field, especially for rare case stuff? In my field (atmospheric and oceanic sciences), the default is to record every talk and post it online, by the organizers. In some places authors are required to sign a form, mostly to protect the conference (e.g. if the author uses a mickey mouse slide and disney sues, the form plainly states that the author is responsible and not the conference). Authors can opt-out of the recording, but only a few do it, and are often blamed by the community. As far as I know, nobody opts-out for the reasons you mention. The most common reason for opting out of recording in my field is that the authors are shy and don't want to have their own face in front of billions of people. The second most common reason is that they will be bragging too much and don't want too many records of their possibly erroneous statements. Cheers, Davide On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Tom Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Adam, > It is a medical field so protection of rare case data is the stated problem, > some presenters worry that slides are copied then reused without > attribution. I strongly feel a blanket ban is an inappropriate response and > would prefer to see guidance that presentations are given under an > appropriate licence. > Enforcement is a different matter, that I don't think has been considered. I > suspect a blanket ban would be impossible to enforce anyway which is why I > suspect licencing is a better approach. > > On Feb 26, 2016 5:33 PM, "Adam Obeng" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> >> Do you have a little more background? Are you talking about recordings of >> presentations by third parties, by the organisers, or by the presenter? How >> would conferences implement a ban on recording? Why do presenters not want >> to allow photos of their slides? Is it a security or confidentiality thing, >> or something else? >> >> I am not a lawyer, but copyright law that applies by default would >> probably allow the reproduction of a photo of a slide, especially if it's >> for academic purposes. Creative Commons licenses are mostly designed to be >> *more* permissive than would otherwise be the case. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Adam >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016, at 05:06 PM, Tom Wright wrote: >> >> Apologies for cross posting, looks like something is messed up with my SWC >> mailing list contacts. >> >> >> I thought I would post here to elicit experiences and thoughts. >> >> The scientific society that covers my field is having a discussion about >> recording rights for conference presentations. Some people have suggested a >> policy that bans recording all together. I'm not happy with this option and >> it has got me thinking about licencing options. I would like to see a policy >> that places presentations under a formal licence such as a Creative Commons >> licence. >> Does such a licence protect the presenter from derivative copies of work, >> such as a photo of a presentation slide? >> Do other scientific organisations have policies in this area? >> >> Thanks for your expertise, >> Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
