I was assuming that this was in fact a copyright issue. Apparently not. In which case one might ask "For what was permission granted?" If it is indeed not narrative display, but simple facts, its not an issue. However, an extract does involve some creative selection of information, and perhaps interpretation of what that information represents. If the extract is purely the original uncopyrighted text, in the same order with ellipsis representing the repetitive phrasing that been deleted, than it would seem quoting it would be reasonable, and not infringeing on copyright. If there's a lot of inerpretive information interspersed, original to the primary author, then that would be something else again. Its that creative part that would be the sticking point. Bill On Sep 2, 2007, at 11:30 AM, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 9/2/2007 10:15:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, > wmwillis@earthlink.net writes: > > Sure, I've a solution for that. > > if the email were still in existence, you could place it on a wiki, > along with the narrative that's the subject of the email. > Depending on the wiki you chose you could probably place limits on > how others might use that information. The permission might be > specific to you, or more or less let anyone use it. But by placeing > it on a wiki you have a public announcement of your privilege of > using that bit of narrative. > > > > ----- > Bill- > > I don't think we've established that we are talking about > "narrative text" > as opposed to facts/genealogical data. If the abstracts are merely > genealogical data then anyone can use it--it can't be copyrighted. > > If Debbie does have permission to use/post *copyrighted* material, > then that > permission extends only to Debbie. It doesn't give others the > right to use > the same copyrighted material from Debbie's website just because > SHE had > permission to use it. > > Joan > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all- > new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COPYRIGHT- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message