Andrea Anything published on a website is copyrighted the second it is uploaded and online. Most websites have copyright notices prominently displayed -- usually along the lines of that anyone may link to the site but may not publish or re-distribute information found there. If it's on GENUKI (or anywhere else) it is copyright to them. The facts are public domain but the way GENUKI presents those facts or the extra wording they have added to the basic facts, is copyright. You cannot 'lift' entire sections or articles or webpages and send them out on mail lists or other distribution sites. It doesn't matter how many hands went into the transcribing of information or writing of articles for a website -- it is still copyright to the website maintainers/owners or the individuals themselves if so noted. And really -- even it it weren't copyright, why would you do that? Every site wants visitors which is why they go to all that trouble and hard work to gather the information and code it for online viewing. If you took that article/history/whatever and started sending it all around the 'net, or put it on your own webpage, you would have completely negated any reason a researcher has to go to GENUKI (or any site) Bottom line? No, you can't just lift things from other folk's sites and send them around the Internet. Andrea Vogel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all -- I am wondering about copyright concerning data which can be > found on the GENUKI web site (a huge site about UK genealogy). Usually > there is no one credited with the info, so don't know who to contact about > it. The material I am wondering about are village histories, also some > church record transcriptions are to be found there. What about copy/paste > to other sites, mail lists, etc? Is this a no-no or is this stuff that is > meant to be shared around? This site is not like Cyndi's List which is has > been compiled by one person -- all kinds of genealogical societies, county > family history groups, etc. add their info to the GENUKI site so it is a > real mixture of sources and input. > What say you, folks? Thanks. Andrea > > > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > Searchable archives at > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=copyright > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > Lorine McGinnis Schulze [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Olive Tree Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ The Canadian Military Heritage Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ Upper-Canada Mail List http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/lists/uppercanada.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~