Re: [quizbowl] Value of Question Sets

David Levinson <*levin031_at_davidlevinson.yahoo.invalid*> · Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:05:05 -0600

To add another wrinkle - and to plug  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qbtrade/
that site has about 25 tournaments from the past few years (which will  
be opened to the public at the end of this season).  Those unfamiliar  
with the site, its basically a question pool that tournament hosts (or  
other question writers) can use, joining by submitting recent  
tournaments, and receiving access to all other recent tournaments.   
Questions get turned over to public domain (de facto if not de jure)  
after 2 years.

New contributions (from this season)  will be opened at the end of the  
2003-2004 season.

-- dml

On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 09:56  PM, oilbaronsball wrote:

> What are your views on the barriers to distribution of packet sets?
> I see two different possible positions on the matter.
>
> 1.  Once a tournament has been completed, the packet sets become
> public domain.  The packet sets are to be placed on something like
> the Stanford Archive for the use of anyone who wishes to download
> them.
>
> 2.  Once a tournament has been completed, the packet sets remain the
> property of the individual or organization that produced the packet
> set or ran the tournament.  The hosting organization has the right to
> charge a nominal fee or request a packet trade for someone else to
> acquire the questions, either in perpetuity or for a period of
> limitations like two years.
>
> The second view is somewhat flawed because once the host organization
> sells one packet set, that set can be acquired from then on from the
> buyer.  This loophole is closed by not giving out the set at all, but
> that is not very productive.
>
> ACF seems to subscribe to the second view.  They currently have the
> sets from ACF tournaments from 2000-2001 and earlier available for
> download.
>
> Berkeley seems to subscribe to the first theory, as I was told they
> have put this year's WIT on the Stanford Archive.
>
> What are your views?
>
> Dan
>
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