> David Rencher gave a talk at the FGS conference in Cincinnati in 1998 in > which he discussed various copyright laws and their effects on genealogy. > Unfortunately, my notes from the lecture are very incomplete (read > 'incoherent'). I seem to remember him saying something about European > copyright law making it illegal to transmit information [on living people, I > believe] by media such as GEDCOMs, e-mail, floppy, etc. Can anyone help me > out on this? > > Thanks, > > Sue Johnston > Laurel, MD > Sounds like the privacy laws, not copyright. I think the Berne convention makes copyright pretty much uniform. -- Tom Thatcher [email protected]