For those who don't get the RootsWeb Review or who failed to read today's copyright article--you might want to check it out in the newsletter archives: Tips from Readers: "Throwing More Light on False Copyright Claims" http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/2006/0329.txt Joan

An exchange in another list raised this issue in my mind. You give a lecture at a genealogy convention and, with your approval, it is taped (either audio or video). Absent any specific contract point on this, who owns the copyright - the person who gave the lecture or the person who taped it? Richard P. Fairfax, Virginia