At 12:28 PM 2/28/00 -0600, you wrote: >I don't understand "you can't reproduce the images . . . but you can >freely transcribe the information from them." > >How about a couple of examples? Thank you. >Alexandra One example is the recent project to scan census records and put them on CDs. The company (S-K Publications) tightly controls what you can do with the CDs they have produced for you, and they won't let you modify the images that they donate to USGENweb. This came up a few months ago when someone complained that the images aren't very legible when presented on a WebTV screen. A solution to that problem would be to split each page in two, so you can look at just the left half, where the names are, without it being compressed down to illegibility. I wrote the company, described the problem and asked for permission to do that and they said no. Glenn