{"id":510,"date":"2009-11-26T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T05:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-12-19T19:44:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T01:44:16","slug":"things-i-learned-from-the-acm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/things-i-learned-from-the-acm\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned from the ACM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not just from the ACM, but also from people involved in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/ke-sen-huangs-paper-pages-are-down-will-soon-go-back-up\/\">Ke-Sen Huang and ACM Publications situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ACM SIGGRAPH membership also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/browse_dl.cfm?coll=Portal&amp;dl=ACM&amp;idx=J166&amp;linked=1&amp;part=newsletter\">gives you access to just about all computer graphics papers<\/a> in the ACM Digital Library. This I knew already, but found that others haven&#8217;t realized it. Any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/calendar\/\">conference sponsored by SIGGRAPH<\/a> is available, from what I can tell, e.g. I3D. I noticed a few weeks ago that the <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/toc.cfm?id=1599301&amp;type=proceeding&amp;coll=GUIDE&amp;dl=GUIDE&amp;CFID=63779448&amp;CFTOKEN=53143367\">SIGGRAPH 2009 \u00a0Posters<\/a> were not accessible to me through this benefit; the ACM fixed this problem when I reported it.<\/li>\n<li>Deep linking, where one site links directly to content on another site, is not illegal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/issues\/bloggers\/legal\/liability\/IP\">The EFF notes<\/a> that deep linking has not yet been found to be illegal by the courts. However, linking to sites providing infringing (illegal) copies of a work for download is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webtvwire.com\/linking-to-infringing-content-is-probably-illegal-in-the-us\/\">contributory infringement<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sweat of the brow&#8221; compilations, such as the white pages of phone books, are not copyright. There is no original expression involved, so the Supreme Court ruled such are not protected. Paula Samuelson&#8217;s article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?doid=129630.129639\"><em>Communications of the ACM<\/em><\/a> (Google Scholar hits <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?cluster=11655056144974714636&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2000\">here<\/a>) is a fascinating overview. Titles are not copyright. Elements such as the order in a Table of Contents are in a gray area, from what I can see. The ordering and grouping of the articles into sessions may be copyright protected &#8211; the courts have not ruled, as far as I know. Changing that order on an external web page would then not be copyright, since it would be a different &#8220;original&#8221; expression. Alphabetized or numerical ordering is not copyright protected.<\/li>\n<li>You do not need to enforce your copyright to maintain it, unlike a trademark. You can ignore an infringement and not lose your rights. So the argument that a copyright must be protected now in order to preserve it in the future is incorrect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not just from the ACM, but also from people involved in the Ke-Sen Huang and ACM Publications situation. ACM SIGGRAPH membership also\u00a0gives you access to just about all computer graphics papers in the ACM Digital Library. This I knew already, but found that others haven&#8217;t realized it. Any conference sponsored by SIGGRAPH is available, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[157,270,271,9],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-acm","tag-copyright","tag-digital-library","tag-siggraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}