Joe, I will respond to your concerns off list. Vivian At 02:53 PM 9/18/2007, you wrote: >Vivian, > >Wanted to get that other part out to you first. >Referring back to my original e-mail, they do not >link to our site. They have it linked to their own >pdf file!! They have their own peach county site. >The information would have to be compared to >see if they copied ours into a pdf file. Their site >does not contain all the cemetery information I >have so there is no link to the archives. I am >wondering and concerned about this???? > >Joe > >Michael and Vivian Saffold wrote: > > Yes, there are two GenWebs, as well as Southern Folk, the American > > History and Genealogy Project and probably some others. Some of our > > coordinators belong to more than one project. > > > > As to your Peach County cemeteries, follow your link, for example, to > > Bateman Cemetery. You will find that the information originally was > > contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Campbell, Hay and Stewart in 1998. > > > > You are not violating copyright for several reasons: > > > > The material was donated to the Archives for non-commercial use. > > Anyone can link to any site on the Internet. You have only linked to > > the material, not made it a part of your site. > > Facts cannot be copyrighted. Copyrights only protect intellectual > > property, e. g. original creations. > > > > Please note that the Archives is a special project exclusive to > our USGenWeb: > > > > http://www.usgenweb.org/projects/index.shtml > > > > The USGW Archives is a valuable asset, which the other projects > do not have. > > > > If you have other questions or concerns, please contact Ed or me off list. > > > > Vivian > > > > > > At 01:48 PM 9/18/2007, you wrote: > > > >> I noticed in the discussions about the Masthead and interesting thing. > >> > >> Someone was trying to find the United States Genealogy Network > >> (USGENNet) not a part of us. > >> I decided to try to find it and noticed an interesting thing. I went to > >> their site and then to Peach County > >> (my GAGENWeb site) but they had their own site. I then went to cemetery > >> listings and found the following: > >> > >> "We very thankful to Millie Stewart, Guelda Hay and Davine Campbell for > >> allowing us the *exclusive* permission to post the Peach County > >> Cemeteries they gathered and transcribed. Any other site that displays > >> these records are in violation the copyrights of these ladies. Without > >> the efforts and hard work of all transcribers we would not have these > >> wonderful research records. Please honor the copyrights of others if not > >> we are likely to see people keep their records and not share them with > >> others and instead opt to publish them. Thanks.. Margie Daniels" > >> > >> > >> Well all their cemeteries I also have plus a whole lot more!! Is there > >> a copyright problem?? I think mine were submitted by other people but > >> not sure yet. > >> > >> Go to usgennet.org to Southern Folk to County Listings and choose your > >> site you may have the same problem. > >> > >> Also very important: note in Georgia the blue link----it is to > >> gagenweb.org!!!!! > >> > >> Really confusing for researchers to find two gagenweb's!!!!!! And that > >> page is not ours!!!!!!! > >> > >> Joe Borderieux > >> Peach County Coordinator GAGENWeb.net > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> GAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >GAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message