Yes but if you read what the original posting was about you will see the question was about the licence not any copyright issues. Subsequent postings have clouded the issue by discussing copyright. > HeritageQuest has posted images of books that are now in the public domain. > However, the HeritageQuest user agreement says that you cannot republish [or > even share, as far as I can tell] materials that you find on HeritageQuest. > snip > > Sara Binkley Tarpley It is the user agreement that restricts the copying not copyright, therefore there is absolutely no point in discussing copyright in this instance. Unless people can understand the significance between copyright and licence agreements they will always run the risk of being sued and losing. Cheers Guy Kathi Jones-Hudson wrote: > Guy: > > According to one of the earlier emails today this is > on HQ's customer service page: > > "While it's true that the original documents are > "public domain," we have > painstakingly processed the records through our > proprietary enhancement > systems. It is through this synthesizing process that > we have generated a > new product, which is fully protected by U.S. and > International copyright law." > > So, yes they are claiming copyright on their images. > According to US Copyright Law there is no 'sweat of > the brow' copyright protection for your labors - only > original and creative expression. Enchancing the scans > doesn't change the underlying data. > > Kathi Jones-Hudson > MD Tombstone Transcription Project Manager > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/maryland/maryland.html > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb's mailing lists are filtered and attachments are removed. A virus that is distributed as an attachment will not reach you through a RootsWeb mailing list. For further information about Viruses, Trojans, Worms etc., go please to: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html. Think to keep your Anti-Virus up-to-date! > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells The site that gives you facts not promises! http://anguline.co.uk/ An organisation dedicated to bring rare books on CD, at an affordable price, to the local history researcher and to the family history researcher.