Hi Joy... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: September 16, 2002 15:43 Subject: Research question | If you pay a person to do research for you because you are out of state, who | owns the intellectual property of this research? Who has the right to | publish this information? Just curious. This is one of those nasty questions lawyers love. Logic and common sense tells me that if I am commissioning a project, I own it; however, lawyers will argue otherwise. I would assume that if pay Joe Doe to find out where Jack Flack was born and to get a copy of his birth certificate that you could then compile that information into a useful Family Tree. Waiting to hear form some lawyer types....<g> Dave...