I am very disturbed by an ethical question that a fellow catter has raised this week with me, put simply, it is that a cattter has been "copying and pasting" and circulating extracts from the threads to people outside of the cat, probably with the best of intentions , but without the permission of the posters, My difficulties with this are:
1 I feel that to copy and republish material in this way, without permission, is at best discourteous and at worst unethical.
2 I do not write to the threads for "circulation" to third parties off cat, I write to my friends, I would not like to have to consider my posts in case they might be read by "others"
3 This is not about individuals or whether it is ok to "blue clicky" to the 'Cat or to share contents of/or consult about threads on music or technique with interested parties, which I think, most would agree is OK
It is about whether it is OK for ANYONE to copy from those Non -Musical threads, which often contain real pain and personal details and feelings, and, for what ever reason, circulate them to others outside of the 'Cat without the knowledge or agreement of the original poster,