[email protected] wrote: > I believe obits, like everything else that has been written, are copyrighted. > They were written by someone--either a member of the family, or most often, > the newspaper.... I've written two newspaper obituaries for close relatives. My understanding, based on experience, about the way obituaries are done these days is something like this. The Funeral Home requests information from the family or other survivors regarding the deceased. The Funeral Home then, with that information, writes an obituary using a standard format used by that Funeral Home. The Funeral Home asks the family to approve the obituary. The Funeral Home then submits the obituary to the newspaper for publication. However, I believe that the family or anyone else could prepare the obituary and submit it directly to the newspaper for publication. But, I think that most obituaries are submitted through the Funeral Home. I believe that newspapers generally don't write obituaries these days. Rather, I think that they merely report death information submitted by others. So, the Funeral Home would probably know better than the newspaper who actually prepared any given obituary. Steve Coker http://scroots.org/