Are these things ethical for on-line competition?

[Vampyr]

It is important if you are the person (not me) whose copyright teaching material is being stolen from the web then copied hundreds of times without your name on it and used as if you (this other person) had created it.

 

 

This is called theft of intellectual property.

Large companies can seek remedy,

But the average 'Joe' can do nothing.

 

It is morally wrong because the person in question is using the material to increase the profitability of their organisation and enhance their job security.

 

I was not talking about that. Perhaps it is safer not to put your teaching materials online?

[pilowsky]

I was not talking about that. Perhaps it is safer not to put your teaching materials online?

I was not the author of the material - as I pointed out - there is an expectation that when a person publishes material, the source will be attributed to them when it is reproduced.

This is especially so when the original person has put their name on every page and added the copyright symbol.

What happened, in this case, is that the offender copied the material added their own name with "Free lessons with "___" at the top removed the name of the author and the copyright symbol and then produced in hard copy the lessons. Dozens of times.

The person then proceeded to read out the lessons - badly - while complaining about the content.

It could not have been more obvious that this person was not the author.

Only later when I left the Club did I discover where the material was plagiarised from.

This may be OK with you.

In my world, it is not.

 

 

[miamijd]

Some questionable on-line actions:

1. Consult convention-cards?
2. Click on GIB's call to find out what it means by it?
3. Test different choices for your own call to discover how GIB would interpret them?
4. Look back at the auction and alerts during play?
5. Keep and consult a trick-by-trick record of all cards played and by whom?
6. Self-kibitz?
7. Enter the same daylong competition several times using different names?
8. Chat with partner or other players about the hand?

At a pinch, the tournament COC might permit, and a player might rationalise the first 4 actions; but surely the fifth is a NO-NO, and the last 3 are blatant cheating?

 

1. Depends on the laws of the sponsoring organization

2. Absolutely fine. I mean, you can't have a prior system discussion with GIB, now can you?

3. Fine. See 2 above.

4. Depends on the laws of the sponsoring organization

5. Cheating

6. Cheating

7. During the hand? Cheating, of course. After the hand, fine, provided you know that the people you are speaking with will not play the hand or have already played the hand (you cannot discuss a hand with someone who is playing it or may play it in the future).

8. Cheating

 

Aren't most of these pretty obvious?

 

Cheers,

Mike