"Mick" <mickg01@verizon.net> wrote: > However despite the other person's possible considerable effort > gathering that information, most if not all of it is probably > information that's available in the public domain, and as many law > suits about 'unauthorized' biographies have shown, publishing such > information is indeed not illegal. Therefore these threats are > simply bluster and unenforceable. I think that the biggest danger is possibly that if someone gets a reputation for publishing other people's reseaarch without their permission, other researchers will be much less enthusiastic about sharing more info with them. If you wouldn't like someone doing it to you, don't do it to other people. Lesley Robertson "Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl>