At 04:07 PM 4/9/03 -0400, you wrote: >Kim and the List, > >I hope you don't mind that I add here in reference to your files "With that >CC's name and copyright on that page also.... >and "If you have information that you would like to have added to the page >please submit to me at <<<<<<<CC>>>>>>". > >This has since been changed to a link frame page that the obvious intent of >is for it to appear that the CC did >the work and is taking credit for it. The link frame has that Counties >GenWeb information at the top with the CC's >name above the links to these files and the bottom of the page appears that >it is a part of the county pages...... >Again, I stress what the "intent" of acting in this manner is. > >Most researchers would go to this page and assume the CC did the work.....my >thoughts on this are, as I stated here before and was admonished for under >threat of being unsubbed from this mail list - >Why waste time going to great lengths to make it "appear" you have >personally done all of this hard work(and anyone who has transcribed a >census knows...it IS hard work).....and spend the time it takes to figure >out how to "get around" the rules/ethics/guidelines....whatever and do some >actual transcribing and place it wherever you would like! I think the real problem here stems from a misunderstanding. Misunderstandings by their very nature come when different folks view the same picture in different ways. Some folks see a vase - others see two faces looking at each other. If one takes the Archives statements at face value - and one would assume that when the Archives places a disclaimer that it says what it means and means what it says that if one proceeded accordingly one would be safe in one's actions regarding said disclaimer. However, the fact of the matter is that the Archives over the last 6 years has many disclaimers - varied over time - instead of a blanket disclaimer or the same disclaimer on every file as one would think they would. This item is currently, among other items, being discussed off and on at the National level and in conjunction with the Archives administrators. Even there the AB and the Archives folks have different views of the same picture. Hopefully at some time in the near future - an agreement will come about regarding the disclaimer - as to what it means in plain English that real people can understand - so that there can be no mistake about what it says and means. Otherwise, I fear, the courts will decide it - and that my friends would truly be a shame. Tim