Comments on: An Economist conference about telecoms http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/04/24/an-economist-conference-about-telecoms/ Radio, broadcasting, websites, and beer. Possibly. Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:37:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Doug Clow http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/04/24/an-economist-conference-about-telecoms/#comment-32854 Doug Clow Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:06:35 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=595#comment-32854 Fascinating stuff, as ever, but I think you may have the Chatham House rule a bit wrong - as I understand it (and as <a href="http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/about/chathamhouserule/">Chatham House itself</a> have it), the rule says that you can use the information freely, but you must not identify the source, by name or attribution. So you could publish all the interesting stuff you'd picked up there, and say that it had come from the meeting, but not say who had said it. Obviously the people in the room might have had a different understanding and that would be the rule with moral force here. Lots of people use 'Chatham House rules' to loosely mean "don't quote people on contentious things they may say", rather than the strict actual rule. You were there so much better placed than I am to judge here! Fascinating stuff, as ever, but I think you may have the Chatham House rule a bit wrong - as I understand it (and as Chatham House itself have it), the rule says that you can use the information freely, but you must not identify the source, by name or attribution. So you could publish all the interesting stuff you’d picked up there, and say that it had come from the meeting, but not say who had said it.

Obviously the people in the room might have had a different understanding and that would be the rule with moral force here. Lots of people use ‘Chatham House rules’ to loosely mean “don’t quote people on contentious things they may say”, rather than the strict actual rule. You were there so much better placed than I am to judge here!

]]> By: Ashley Brown http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/04/24/an-economist-conference-about-telecoms/#comment-32845 Ashley Brown Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:04:23 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=595#comment-32845 That's not how the Chatham House Rule works! You can report *what* was said, just not who said it or their affiliation. That’s not how the Chatham House Rule works! You can report *what* was said, just not who said it or their affiliation.

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