At 10:01 AM 1/16/00 -0800, Andrea Vogel wrote: >Hi -- this is my first post to the list as I just joined. Great to have this >resource as copyright topics always seem to be popping up. > Question -- how much of a published book is it permissable to quote My friend Jon Harlan Livezey has just learned that a big commercial genealogical CD publisher recently published 268 pages out of his 271-page book on Harford County, Maryland Marriage licenses. The three pages that were omitted were those that showed that the work was by Mr. Livezey and not by the publisher. I suppose the publisher was going by the rule that "you can't copyright facts". But they also copied several mistakes that were accidentally introduced by Mr. Livezey. Needless to say, he (and I) think it is shameful behaviour even if not illegal. There was no apparent attempt to contact him to get permission. The book, published in 1993, does not contain a copyright statement, so there is probably no recourse. Glenn