My question concerns the legality of someone posting copyrighted material on an Internet forum.
I am about to publish a book which will have technical readout from an investigation involving an electron microscope (SEM). The data is a direct printout from the SEM. It is a graph showing the elemental composition of a metallic ore.
To get the research done private funds were paid to the university who did the testing.
My concern is that in an on-line forum(s) the graphic data will be reproduced. Since the data adds value to the book publishing it on-line will negate that factor. Resulting in fewer sales -- for the data is much sought after and nearly impossible to obtain.
Can anything be done to discourage or (better yet) prevent a forum from publishing such data?
L.
I am about to publish a book which will have technical readout from an investigation involving an electron microscope (SEM). The data is a direct printout from the SEM. It is a graph showing the elemental composition of a metallic ore.
To get the research done private funds were paid to the university who did the testing.
My concern is that in an on-line forum(s) the graphic data will be reproduced. Since the data adds value to the book publishing it on-line will negate that factor. Resulting in fewer sales -- for the data is much sought after and nearly impossible to obtain.
Can anything be done to discourage or (better yet) prevent a forum from publishing such data?
L.