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Case for Discussion A postdoc and his mentor have co-authored a paper describing their research results. This paper has appeared as a preliminary report in a copyrighted monograph. One of the figures in this paper is a computer-generated graph that describes data on a series of bacterial growth curves. The postdoc and mentor presently are preparing a major paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. They both agree that the growth curve data in the monograph article are crucial to the story they're telling in the present manuscript. Accordingly, they decide that this same figure must be included in their present writing. Because they are aware of potential copyright violations, they generate the exact same figure using different type face fonts and different line thicknesses for the ordinate and the abscissa. They have decided that since this is not the exact same figure which appeared in their monograph article the use of it will not constitute a copyright infringement. They also plan to indicate in their manuscript that this figure has been "adapted from" the one initially published in the monograph article. used with permission |
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