Michael, Make sure that the copyright seems valid. Is it drawn by the person who claims the copyright, or could it be a public domain map which someone just has in their 1987 book? People claim copyrights on their books, but sometimes less than 10% of it is actually copyrighted. Cliff Michael Allison wrote: > Hi. > I need some help please. I moderate a genealogy e-mail list for a NC county. Recently we've been discussing the Walton War, the 1810 conflict that occurred between Georgia and North Carolina within the NC county discussed on the list. A member has located a map that shows historical features relative to our discussion and today offered to copy and post the map on our members' only website. The map bears a copyright date of 1987. > > I've asked to hold off until getting some opinions. To my thinking, we cannot copy and post that map on the website. Or am I utterly wrong? Might that act fall under fair use? Thanks if anyone can help with this matter. > Michael Allison > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > Threaded archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/COPYRIGHT-L/ > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/