If any of you have time this month (or next...) to read this article about copyrighting genealogical information, at http://www.interment.net/column/commentary/19990915.htm would you please think about how this applies to the two Handley history books we are in the process of putting on-line? I mean this in reguards to publishing the birth dates, old addresses and places of business, children's names, marital status, etc. on-line of people who at least were living at the time the booklets were originally published. We have the written permission of the two authors to put these books on-line. Do we risk anything by putting this info on-line? One solution I can think of would be to put the complete book on-line for a short period of time, and announce the URLs to this list. Then those of us who want a chance to download the web pages to our own PCs may do that. Afterwards, that on-line books (or the sections with living people data) could be removed from the internet. Those who got copies could volunteer, if they want, to do look-ups from the books. Others have suggested that we delete the info for living people and replace the data with the word "LIVING", or some such. I hesitate to make those changes to someone else's books. Our permission to upload them doesn't extend to that, I think. My mother-in-law was surprised to see that her address and phone number are readily accessable by anyone on the WHOWHERE people finder site. School teachers' salaries here in Kansas are supposed to be accessable by anyone since they are public record. So I guess I'm asking if anyone knows what kinds of data are public record, in regards to genealogy data on living persons. Thanks! (No hurry!!) Nancy