> It's not a matter of not wanting our information passed on. It's a > matter of being madder than a wet hen at seeing someone else claim > as THEIR work that which WE have labored to produce. I want to be > able to put my information out there -- I just want to do it in such > a way that someone else cannot steal it and claim that THEY did all > the work that *I* actually did! > > "Karen Rhodes" <[email protected]> You won't be able to... Even posting as a PDF collection of bitmap images of the text can not prevent an OCR program from recovering plain text. And if the plain text is in a highly structured format (as most genealogy programs tend to produce), someone could probably create a parser to scan the OCR-recovered text and extract things like dates, names, places, events, to be inserted into another database. Check the history of phonebook litigation. -- bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/ Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]>