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