Re: Near space maps

Jeff Lyon wrote:
> 
> At 07:25 PM 9/17/98 -0400, Nyrath wrote:
> >	  Traveller 2300AD by GDW
> 
> Which, IIRC, included a couple of "ringers" in case anyone tried to...
> uh... annex... their data for their own commercial use.
> 
> It would be pretty easy to prove in court that the Gliess catalog does
not
> include "Bob's Star" (or whatever it was) at coordinates xxx, yyy,
zzz.

	Yes, I mentioned this in my web site.
	This was mentioned in a Fred Saberhagen Bezerker short story
	("the Destruction of Ankor Efelion"?)
	It turns out that makers of dictionaries and encyclopedias
	have the same problem.	What if some unscrupulous 
	individual copies your work and publishes it?
	How do you prove they stole it?  After all, a dictionary
	is a dictionary?

	So you put ringers in your work.  And catch the
	crooks red-handed.

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