I don’t really get these quasi-monopolies on information in this day and age.
Yes, yes I agree, if some pencil pusher from a brokerage firm do reach, technical analysis and writes an article with graphs and illustrations on a company’s future prospects, then by all means, it should be copyrighted, their livelihood and all.
But when I stand on the side of the road at an intersection and I see first a red car, then a blue car and then a white car stopping and I say on a forum the red car is 1st the blue car 2nd and white car 3rd, how can this be subject to copyright or policy protection? Who owns that right?
Really, you know we get this information mostly online in some form or another from various media sources, and if you don’t like it, we can just google for share prices directly at company web sites, sure they won’t mind. Pfft, “unable to grant request” – “hands are tied” who are these people?
What shall we do about ‘Last days to trade’ and ‘dividend amounts’? Are those information subject to policy and cannot be published? And spot prices of commodities and resources, how about world indices at closing bell, better get Donald on the phone to ask permission to publish Nasdaq & Dow movements right away. We deal in facts here after the matter, nobody owns that information if I’m not mistaken.
The purpose of the forum is to share information to like-minded individuals for the benefit of all on your own time with your own money and effort – nobody gets paid here, is that why they are so nasty – afraid we make money?
And if some idiot wants to sue, good luck suing a Moneypenny-Avatar (Patrick, please burn my personal info
) and double good luck proving the info came from you.
Idiots.
Rant over.
(Is somebody clued up with these issues, I’d love to know if publishing closing share price values, LDT, dividend amounts, world indices closing values or spot prices are copyrighted? - I'd be surprised if they are.)
