Hi Mama Walton & All - About copyright, there is an excellent article by Penny Bonnar of the International Internet Genealogical Society entitled "Understanding Copyright & Its Applications to the Information Age" at: http://www.iigs.org/newsletter/9904news/copyright.htm.en In fact, IIGS has some great articles on various subjects relating to genealogy - their main address is: http://www.iigs.org/ Faye > Hi all, > I thought I would try to give some insight to copyright laws, or rather > copying a book as many of us have done. > This is taken from (Copyright Law section) > http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ > More specifically from: > http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/chapter1.pdf >