At 02:51 PM 3/9/03 -0600, you wrote: >I want to put this to bed right now. > >I pulled information that had submitters names on it . > >I had a complaint from Mr. John Adams that the material he had submitted was >deleted from the County site. He specifically said to me that he was upset >because Carol Johnson had deleted the information he had sent to be placed >on the Talbot page. > >If you will look at the archives the cemeteries are there. > >I did not and would not violate anyone's copyrights. > >When the are placed on the site if anyone wants to request that their work >be returned to them can make such a request along with their copyright >documentation and the material will be removed. > >Submissions to the county pages do not become the property of the CC it is >for the use of the GaGenWeb county project. > >This is just one of 13 counties that went poof and the donated materials >disappeared with them. Our guidelines state : > >8. Ownership of GAGenWeb County Sites, Related Data, and Project Integrity. >Ownership of GAGenWeb county and special project site designs belong solely >to the coordinator who created them, and may be transferred, permanently, to >a successor. > >Ownership of transcribed genealogical data, including queries, belongs >solely to the transcriber or author, who donates the data or query to the >county GAGenWeb site, which is only received by the county coordinator, on >behalf of the county site. The County Coordinator shall not have any >ownership rights in said data or queries and shall not remove them from the >site upon resignation or removal. > >In the event of a coordinator changeover, all donated county data will >continue to be stored on the new site unless the transcriber asks for its >removal by email to the CC or RC/SC. > >GAGenWeb reserves the right to use whatever technical means necessary to >retrieve data deleted by, but not owned by a former county coordinator. > >In the interest of maintaining GAGenWeb's Project Integrity: > a)A GAGenWeb site may not be utilized as part of any other online >genealogical project, other than USGenWeb, and > b)Any current or future GAGenWeb county site operated by a genealogical >or historical society must agree to place real genealogy data on the sites, >without fee(s). > > >If anyone has any additional questions on this matter direct your concerns >to me, Brenda Pierce or Tim Stowell. Actually, if you have concerns regarding this - or a like matter contact your Regional Coordinator, whomever, he or she might be and/or me. Tim