I think there's more of a point here. When you write a question, you own that question. You don't own the facts in that question, of course, but you own the writing. If submitted to a tournament, then the tournament also has some ownership of the question. This is why packets can be part of the requirements for admission to tournaments and why schools that run tournaments are able to sell or trade questions. As I understand it, both the authors of a packet and the editors of a tournament are allowed to sell/trade the questions they wrote/edited. If a third party sells that work without consent, there is a legal issue there, not just an ethical one. In my opinion, there is a very strong case here that the question was plagiarized. I'm not a lawyer, so I could be wrong on the legal side here. But as far as I know, the only thing that could be claimed is that the question was copied for "educational use", and if Beall makes money off the questions then I'd think that argument doesn't work. As for whether from this point of view it is wrong to copy things out of Binet's or some other source, I'd say that it is acceptable. The reasoning is that when you go to a tournament you are not paying for a bunch of facts to be read to you, but rather for the questions (and moderators etc.) There is creative work done in taking known information and making it into questions, and as such I don't see anything wrong with using these sources for questions.
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