Thanks, of corse, but the do deserve respect. Fine line between sharing and protecting interpretation On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, The Perrys wrote: > Hi Patricia, > > I don't believe that they can prevent this from happening. The data is not > copywritable, just their presentation of the data. So if their email > messages, etc contain dates and places, they do not own any rights to this > information. > > Thanks! > Peggy Perry > > President, Iowa County Genealogical Society > Visit us at: http://www.friendsnfamily.net/wiiowagensoc/index.html > Moderator for The Obituary Daily Times > For Obituaries from around the world - visit us at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary > County Coordinator for the Wisconsin GenWeb Program - Iowa County > Visit us at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiiowa > Owner of the Iowa County Wisconsin Mailing list > to subscribe <[email protected]> message: subscribe > Co-Owner of the GenMsc mailing list > to subscribe: <[email protected]> message: subscribe > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Patricia Tidmarsh <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 1:19 PM > Subject: Unpublished research > > > > Four of my surnames, for which I administer lists, plus variants, have > > major researchers who have in the past shared their information on BBS or > > private mailing lists or email Some are planning to publish and do not > > wish the information which they have formerly shared to be sent to the > > current Rootsweb lists by third, or even fourth parties (who may not be > > aware they are using someone else's research). > > > > Has anyone else had this situation come up and how have they handled it. > > > > Thanks > > > > Patricia > > > > > ============================== > RootsWeb.com now offers UNLIMITED Web space for FREE! > Sign up today for RootsWeb's Freepages program: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >