We have become increasingly aware of Copyright & Trademark Infringement and the Intellectual Property laws that protect our work since we are currently working on our 15th book dealing with history and genealogy. A month never passes that we are not made aware of verbatim quotes being made on the Internet from one of our books, our website, or our newsletter. Whether the Internet is increasing this illegal use or it is enabling us to discover the illegal use of others is really like, "What came first? The chicken or the egg?". The Virginia Museum Association (VAM) and American Museum Association (AAM) has been dealing with this topic as well as any organization of which I am aware. The AAM has recently introduced A MUSEUM GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK; 225 pages; $25 that can be ordered online at: www.aam-us.org. They have a marvelous selection of informative book on various topics that might be of assistance. Be certain to add copyright information to all of your publications (including web sites), and I have seen wording to the effect that "nothing can be reproduced in whole or part without permission of the organization (or author). Rose Marie Martin, Administrator Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, Inc. PO Box 693 Culpeper, Virginia 22701-0693 E Mail: [email protected] Web: www.germanna.org Office: 540-825-1496 Fax: 540-825-6572 GERMANNA REUNION: July 14-16, 2000 Watch website for information: www.germanna.org/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 5:05 PM Subject: Fw: Re: [APG] Copyright Infringement >This is forwarded with permission of the writer. >Any advice to help her small genealogical society with the issue of >copyright protection? >Please post it on list with a copy to the writer. Or I can forward your >answers to her. >Thank you. >Alexandra > >--------- Forwarded message ---------- >On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:41:39 -0900 "Connie Bradbury" ><[email protected]> writes: >This topic is of special interest to me because our society is finishing >two very large and time consuming project. We are preparing to publish >our second volume of births, deaths, marriages and divorces extracted >from the local newspaper - 1930-59. The first volume was done years ago >and funded by a grant but we know a lot more now and will be doing a >revised edition. We will publish the revised edition on our own. I just >received the 1940-49 index and we are looking at about 250 pages. > >This has been a labor of love for most of those who helped with the >project. We want the opportunity to sell the publication - yes, to help >fund additional projects. Some of our members are putting up front money >for this out of their pockets. It will be devastating to us if someone >purchases a copy then turns around and immediately puts it on the >internet. At some point that could happen with our blessing. > >We have discussed even sending a letter with each copy sold that might >appeal to the sympathetic side of anyone with the idea of putting it on >the internet, explaining that unless we are able to sell copies of the >publication and pay off our "loans" any anticipated projects will go by >the wayside if that happens. It is our blood, sweat and tears and for >someone who only has the ambition to sit at a computer and enter data >without any consideration for the origin of the information, maybe they >should get a life and get out and sit at a film >reader hour after hour extracting the information, inputing the data and >proofing. Or, better yet, find a new project to work on and put on the >internet instead of stealing a floundering little society's projects. > >Ooops, my soap box just collapsed<g> > >Connie > > >==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== >Searchable archives at >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=copyright > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > >