Talk:American Electronics Association

Copyright infringement
Re copyright infringement - the material added, such as a biography, are contained in AeA press release distributed with the implied, if not express permission to reuse. It stretches credibility that the website cited, an MIT alumni association that Archey was a speaker at, has copyright claim on the material. They reused information furnished for the purpose of reuse. Similar a list of employee names can't receive copyright protection - they are simply facts.


 * The list of names wasn't in question. The page from which the text was lifted does not provide a release or comment for free distribution of its text. It may "stretch credibility" in your mind, that things are not just floating around out there waiting to be freely plucked and replanted in anyone else's random field, but plagerism is plagerism until proven otherwise. It is a crime. This is a matter that needs to be addressed by an actual Wikipedia Administrator here with experience in such matters, not simply by the removing of a tag by an anonymous person working for RCN Corporation who doesn't even sign his/her posts. Saudade7 18:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Excessive Focus on RFID?
Having an wikipedia content about the largest high tech association in the US dwell on legislation on RFID chips being considered in a single state seems more than just a little silly. It would seem to reflect the priorities of a single crank.

I see your prior edits have touched on the prospect that RFID chips be be involuntarily implanted on people. What's the matter? Isn't the tin foil hat you have been wearing stopping the CIA from listening in on your thoughts? If a list of names isn't the problem, why cut them?


 * I am certainly willing to address your problem with my contributions. I cite my sources and do not plagerize. And I sign my posts. And I do a lot more than edit this little page. The RFID thing is a topic many people care about. I think people have a right to know that the AeA lobbies for the rights of companies to implant chips in people. Information is necessary in a democratic society so that people can make informed choices. There would not be an "excessive focus" on this topic if other people contributed to the page, but plagerizing is not the same as genuinely contributing. And, FYI I looked at your history too. I see that pretty much everything you do on the Wiki has been reverted because you just add vanity pages to the external links columns. I am sorry if you are so insecure that you cannot sign your posts or create your own non-plagerized content, but that is not a reason to assume that I am as crazy as you are. Also, *I* never cut anything. I simply put a banner on the page so an Administrator could verify the content. You are being paranoid. Saudade7 22:53, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Copyright and RFID

I am the Director of Internet Communications for the AeA and we do not object to Mr. Archey's biography being used in this context on Wikipedia. The original copyright is from, which we own. The characterization that AeA lobbies for companies to implant RFID into people is incorrect. Our long standing association position is for advocating for technology neutrality and the reference relates to a quote that states that the industry opposes anything that demonizes RFIDs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason.langsner (talk • contribs) 15:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)