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Old 01-24-2007, 02:11 AM
J.R. J.R. is offline
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Default Re: Baseball Projections and Plagiarism

The click wrap agreement provides:

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Fair Use is Permitted

Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of protected materials for noncommercial purposes such as research, peer review, commentary and news reporting. Unless otherwise noted, persons and subscribers who wish to download or print PEV's text and image files for such uses may do so without PEV's express permission. Users must cite the author and source of this material as they would material from any printed work. By downloading, printing, or otherwise using such text and image files, users agree that they will limit their use of such information to fair use, and will not violate PEV's or any other party's proprietary rights.

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PEV = Prospectus Entertainment Ventures, LLC, the entity that owns BP

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I dunno if the news reporting fair use exception applies, but the reporter should cite to BP at a minimum. (I'm not an IP lawyer tho).

A larger scale reproduction of the projections is a no-no. Technically its iffy, as data is not copyrighted, but rather the systems that produce the data are legally protected (i.e. the "PECOTA algorithm"). It would be *rather hard* to demonstrate that you produced the same data w/out stealing.

Not giving props to BP = mad douchebaggery
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