In a message dated 8/31/2007 10:55:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, RoverLSmith@aol.com writes: << The issue of linking to subpages of websites has been brought up, but I don't know if there has been any litigation concerning this. Maybe someone can enlighten me. The Internet isn't fully represented in our laws yet. I know some webmasters that are very upset about their subpages having been linked by for-profit organizations. >> ----- Debbie- Deep linking under some circumstances CAN be a copyright violation -- but that doesn't involve the current cached pages discussion. << I'm offended by OneWorldTree and am happy to have not submitted anything to any Rootsweb tree. We shouldn't have to pay for our own submissions. >> ----- You may be offended by it if you like but what is being charged for is the search engine--not the data. The data is still freely accessible and searchable in its original location as always. <<What Ancestry.com has been doing is, in order to avoid providing more useful, hard to obtain data, enlarging their site with the labor of others, that others intended to be free. I don't want to pay for something I can get with a Google search.>> ----- That is all well and good for people who know how to use Internet search tools effectively--but not everyone does and any additional tool that makes the searches yield better results should be welcomed. << The downside of these "freepages" are that Ancestry.com / Rootsweb controls them. Best to pay a small amount of money and go elsewhere. >> ---- You really DO need to re-read the AUP section on User-provded data. All you are granting RootsWeb is the right to display and redistribute (for backups, and search tools, etc.) your data. RootsWeb/Ancestry is not claiming any ownership. << An aside -- Last time I was at the library I found books written wholly from information obtained from web sites, some of it very inaccurate. Many of the passages were large enough to not be considered fair use. Any thoughts about these books ... Has anyone seen them? >> ----- That's a very vague statement. Whether there has been copyright infringement would greatly depend upon what data is included in these books--so the question you raise is unanswerable as you have presented it. One point...it isn't illegal to publish inaccurate information. Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour