Wendy, I read Joan's answer which is excellent. But you are also right. The info is already out in the public. Copyright-wise, the newspaper ~~could~~ object to a 2005 copied item--BUT many newspapers shrug and don't care if obits are clipped for genealogy. People in other venues have also raised the issue of who "owns" the obit, especially if a family member wrote it. Articles written on this subject say that experts in copyright law side with the newspaper as the publisher. To ME, it seems people always have a bone to pick about ~~something~~. Makes me wonder ...they must not have any personal or life problems to attend to, IMO, which is certainly rare for any person today. LOL Judy On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Wendy Howard <wendy.howard@gmail.com>wrote: > > These posts are transcriptions of newspaper obituaries. > > ...another part sees that this are copies of things that have appeared in > newspapers and therefore already out in the public arena. > >