Roger I suspect we can find someone at our local historical Society libraries and public libraries who can confirm our thoughts that the 1947 copyright is no longer in effect. My son is the local prosecuting attorney but I'm sure he doesn't know about copyright. It's too white collar for him but I'll try to remember to pull the O'Gorman book off the shelf and ask the head librarian over at State Historical Society I think you could just try your public library. especially if you are in a large town. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [CALVERT-L] William Calvert - Elizabeth Nodding Robert Fillerup writes: > I have the pages from O'Gorman on William Calvert and Elizabeth Nodding [pp. 661-677] input and formated in html for a web page. I would be glad to forward the info to the Calvert homepage or some > other appropriate page at Rootsweb. I do have a concern, however, about copyright problems. > I recall seeing a post on this list a while back about the copyright to O'Gorman and that it had expired, was invalid, or something to that effect. I understand that the book is currently being > republished , so we may have to get permission from that source. While I am an attorney, I know virtually nothing about current copyright law (nor do I particularly care to). > As some of you may be aware, here in Utah there is a pending suit in federal court by the LDS church against the Tanners, a hard-core anti-Mormon husband-wife team. They posted a copy of an LDS > Church leaders' manual to their web site. The federal judge ordered them to remove the material because it violated the Church's copyright. So they posted links to other sites (like in New Zealand) > where the same material could be found. The federal judge then ordered them to remove even the LINKS, findng that the posting of the links was also a potential copyright violation. > Recently the Tanners' attorney responded by claiming that the material that was actually posted originally was from an earlier version of the manual, and that it was not ever duly copyrighted. The > judge has that matter under advisement. > I input and formatted the O'Gorman material to be used as an appendix to a William Calvert - Elizabeth Nodding page that I have been working on for some time. However, I have lately refocused on > getting my William & Mary Nodding page finished and posted, so have put the Calvert page on hold. But, I am willing to post the O'Gorman portion if someone can assure me that it is proper. > > > ==== CALVERT Mailing List ==== > No copyrighted materials are permitted on this list unless by the copyright owner themselves. > Robert, There is no copyright on "Descendants of Virginia Calverts", 1947, Ella Foy O'Gorman. It was published by an un-named company , per the Library of Virginia. Higginson has been re-publishing it for several years without reference to a copyright. Higginson has "deep pockets" and would be wide-open to a lawsuit if they re- published without referencing a copyright and paying royalities. Ella Foy had no children (and presumably no heirs). She compiled and published her book to help future researchers of the Calvert family. George Calvert [email protected] George Calvert [email protected] ==== CALVERT Mailing List ==== Any list problems or questions can be sent to the listowner, Christi Calvert Brogan at [email protected]