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Gartner Hype Cycle and Copyright

Does such copyright violation help or harm Gartner?

In the morning, I opened today’s Times of India, Bangalore edition and on page 18 I found an article on “Gartner Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies 2009″. There is no copyright notice. It appears as it some reported has picked up the graphics from the web and written the article. So, this may be a case of copyright infringement.

You can access it here – http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOINEW/navigator.asp?Daily=TOIBG&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI and select page 18.

I had come across a post by Neville Hobson (2nd August) on Gartner restricts usage of hype cycle graphics, which discussed the subject of copyright. Gartner has a clearly defined policy on who can quote the hype cycle – Want to quote a Hype Cycle?.

Does such copyright violation help or harm Gartner?
I think it is good free advertisement of the report as well as the concept of hype cycle and I agree with Neville Hobson that by restricting the use Gartner is preventing “…buzz about their research…” to emerge.

Brendan Hughes has commented that a “…creative commons type approach here would be very beneficial for Gartner and more in keeping with the spirit of openness in the digital age.”

However, Gartner feels that the use of the graphics out of context can be misleading. For example, according to Gartner, labels like trough of disillusionment, is open to misinterpretation.

Other Hype-Cycle Reports
Apart from the hype cycle on emerging technologies, which receive the maximum attention, Gartner also published hype-cycles of many other topics (I counted 79 of the). You can see the list here. Each report is around USD 1,995.

However, if you are only interested in the finding out what technologies are covered in each of the report, it is available as the table of content available on the Gartner site.

Usefulness of the report
Here are few of my earlier posts discussing the same:

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Udayan Banerjee is CTO at NIIT Technologies Ltd, an IT industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience. He blogs at http://setandbma.wordpress.com.
The blog focuses on emerging technologies like cloud computing, mobile computing, social media aka web 2.0 etc. It also contains stuff about agile methodology and trends in architecture. It is a world view seen through the lens of a software service provider based out of Bangalore and serving clients across the world. The focus is mostly on...

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