> > 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. > > Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> I'm not thinking of posting my genealogy, I'm thinking of posting a chrono listing of the facts uncovered by a number of Sullivan researchers that I have collected. The list is more than 50 pages, single-spaced for VA and NC. Since most harvesters look for trees I wonder what they would do with a site like that. If one page was text and the next PDF, would that affect harvesting? I could leave sources off and make people come to me for them since facts are almost useless without sources. Any thoughts - anyone? Hugh [email protected] (J. Hugh Sullivan)