----Original Message Follows---- From: Scott Anderson <[email protected]> Reply-To: Scott Anderson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: question Date: 28 Nov 2000 16:25:23 -0500 Scott, I have read about copyrights on obits relative to posting them on various internet servers (genconnect etc), and this seems correct to me. The obituary does have copyright protection as is consistant with the discussion, and thus requires the copyright owners permission to publish. However, the facts contained in the obit (birth date, death date, spouses name, etc) are facts, and not original expressions. The facts are not copyrightable and therefore can be extracted and published without regard to the owner of the copyright on the obit Is that more consistant with your thinking? Bob 3) I have also seen it asserted that obits are formulaic, and therefore do not constitute original expression and so are not copyrightable no matter when they are published. I doubt if this is true in general, but have no way of knowing how common it is or how one determines if the obit is formulaic. Does anyone else have some information on this? S R C A cott obert ranston nderson [email protected] ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== Support RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com