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    1. Re: [ERY] Look ups...if you want them
    2. John Rouse
    3. In message <3.0.2.32.20020707214828.0126cd30@192.168.0.1>, Colin Hinson <Colin@blunham.demon.co.uk> writes >Hi Dawn, >You really should not be advertising look-ups from currently available >books/booklets etc. By doing this you are depriving the FHS of income and >probably breaching their copyright. The copyright is only in the layout and indexing. The data are either out of copyright or Crown Copyright (depending on the source). > >Would you like it if you put weeks of work into reasearching and publishing >a book and then the first person to buy it advertised that they would do >look-ups for the rest of the world from your book? Indeed, that is why many of us work for FreeCen and FreeBMD, in the belief that such information, being in the public domain, should be more widely disseminated. John -- John Rouse

    07/08/2002 01:19:12