Human Terrain & Anthropology (merged thread)

[Adam L]

For starters, I don't think Price was motivated by his concern for copyright laws.

Price and his motivations are not the focuse of what I wrote. The issue I am addressing is broader.

Second, I think that is a red herring: if copyright laws have been violated (and I don't know that they have), adding a citation doesn't change it. As someone else pointed out, ideas aren't copyrighted, words are. I don't believe that the manual includes enough verbatim use of copyright material to constitute a legal violation. I would strongly suspect that it was scrubbed by lawyers at some point before publication.

My point exactly. Why couldn't someone just have said that?

Adam