In a message dated 7/27/99 11:46:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, walloon@mailbag.com writes: << It is hard to imagine an arrangement of a cemetery transcription that would constitute creative, and hence copyrightable, material. Alphabetical or geographical order certainly are not sufficiently creative to qualify. >> Sorry, I probably should have added a small bit of explaination. I have many cemetery books done by people who live in the local areas and are familar with the history and people of those areas. The cemetery books (and other such works such as census') are Annotated with addtional information. Parents/grandparents names, place of birth, marriage info, known children, military info. That's what I mean by more than a *grocery* list. And yes, many, many people like yourself, gather this information and have it placed on a website or posted in a e-mail List for the benefit and use of the general public. While freely distributed to others, this information *belongs* to originators of that information. And work/results/arrangements would be covered under copyright protection, unless I have mis-read everything so far on this matter wrongly. The Web has broadened the scope of copyrights and an individual's right to their work. The best example was the recent attempt by Yahoo/GeoCities to claim all rights of use and distribution to anything that was placed on their websites. Gloria raglady@aol.com