Hi Everyone. thank You for all the help. I think I need to explain more: The first page of this Book is stated as: xxxx County Birth Recorded 1850-1877 Courtesy of John J. XXX , County Clerk Format Used: Name of Child Birthdate Father-Age-Pl.of Birth Mother-Age-Pl. of Birth # of Child Born Filing Date Copied by: xxxx Sept. 1974 Okay, there is only one of these books. It's never been sold, It's at the Public Library in the genealogy Section- This is not owned or copyrighted to Gen. Soc. What is abv, is what creative info. there is in the whole book. When I goto the Co. Clerks office, I get an Index book, when I find the name, I pay the $7.00 fee to get the other abv info. It's about making Money not Copyright. The orginal book is just fine. they keep great records. I can go to the county next door, They give me the index for birth or death and when I find the name they go get the orginal book and let me copy the info for free. They will let me copy it all. My delma lays in weather or not this mans info is copyrighted. The info and the way it is wrote, is the same as it is in the orginal. So, The County Clerk wants the money. Now, here is another quiestion reguarding Copyright And Marriage Lic. Same County. back in the 70's a person went in a made a photocopy of every single page in the Marriage Book. It states that. Which again the County Clerk wants the money so I can't get or noone for that matter can get to that info. w/o paying the money. So, this Marriage Lic. Book couldn't be copyrighted. I think my quiestion replys to the Law Of Monoply on Public Domain records and Copyright effects to the only to books which neither have been copyrighted. I hope this makes since and is much clearer. Candi