This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QU.2ADI/3916.1.1 Message Board Post: Dale I will not go into a discussion of the law, if the Historical Society wishes to battle the legality that is up to them. However there is also an ethical issue, and coping and publishing entire pages of published material is not what I consider to be very ethical considering the Society has not given permission for it to be reprinted. In fact there has been complaints. Sharing one or two names on a list is not the same thing as copying their entire works. There is nothing to stop individuals from getting those rosters for themselves and sharing them.