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- | Include minor deliberate errors in large content/data sets to help identify plagiarized work and copyright infringements. | + | Include minor deliberate errors in large reference content/data sets to help identify plagiarized work and copyright infringements. |
=== What Problem This Solves === | === What Problem This Solves === | ||
- | + | Third-parties are making your dataset available or using it without permission, and you can't prove that yours is the original. | |
=== When to Use This Pattern === | === When to Use This Pattern === | ||
- | + | Use this pattern when you have a valuable large set of reference data or content that can be copied and re-used without permission, and you need to protect it from wholesale copyright infringement | |
=== What's The Solution? === | === What's The Solution? === | ||
- | + | Include a deliberate error/entry in the dataset that can be proven incorrect; "''By including a trivial piece of false information in a larger work, it is far easier to demonstrate that someone has plagiarized that work: they will presumably copy the fictitious entry along with other articles.''" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#Motivations_for_creation source]) | |
=== Why Use This Pattern === | === Why Use This Pattern === | ||
- | + | Data is a valuable commodity on the web, copyright infringement is rife, and digital data/content is simple to copy. Although fictitious entries may not be enough to prove ownership in a legal battle, the pattern remains a useful mechanism for detecting infringements. | |
=== References === | === References === | ||
- | # | + | #[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry Fictitious entries (Wikipedia)] |
=== Examples Gallery === | === Examples Gallery === | ||
- | + | [[Image:Moat-lane-fictitious-entry.jpg|thumb|left|Moat Lane, North London: a fictitious entry (or Trap Street) in Google Maps data]]<br> | |
=== Categories<br> === | === Categories<br> === | ||
[[Category:Lifecycle]] | [[Category:Lifecycle]] |
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