Sorry for the cross posting listers. This is a very interesting article. Madeline Madeline in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Perpetually in search of family tree: AVIS - Suffolk ** ROSEBLADE - Glouc ** WEBB - London ** STAPLES-Ont WELHAM - Kent/Suff ** WHITING - Woolwich ** PARROTT/SAVIN -Oxf PARROTT/SAVIN-Oxford ** WHITE/QUINN/BYRNE - Ireland **BARKWELL -Surrey SMITH - Suffolk - --------------------------------* email siva@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Supporting the campaign for cheaper and easier access to older civil registration records. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 14:42:10 -0600 From: Bill MacDonald <macd@connect.ab.ca> To: Madeline Webb <siva@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Fwd: Copyright article Hi Madeline, Thought you might find this article of interest. It should make it easier to get material and information from England Bill >From: "Ken & Julie Dufault" <kjathome@aspi.net> >Old-To: "Lanark" <Lanark-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Copyright article >Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 14:22:26 -0400 > > >Another article from The Family Tree newspaper... > >PRO Waives Copyright Rules > > The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and >is copyright 1999 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published her with the >permission of the author. > > Genealogists in the United States naturally assume that all governmental >records are in public domain. However, that is not the case elsewhere. In >many other countries government records are considered copyrighted for 100 >to 200 years. These records may not be reproduced and sold without >permission from the government of that country. > Now the Public Record Office in England has announced a major change. > Copyright at the Public Record Office Guidelines for Those Who Propose >To Reproduce Works Among Records Held in the Public Record Office > From 26th March 1999, the Crown will in future waive its copyright >in Crown copyright material in public records that are available to the >public and that were unpublished when they were transferred. This means >that such material can be copied, indexed, transcribed, published and >broadcast without formal permission, payment of a copyright fee or >acknowledgment of copyright. > The change affects not only public records in the PRO but also those in >all places of deposit outside the PRO, the National Archives of Scotland and >the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Material in private >copyright, published Crown copyright material, and non-public records are >all unaffected. > A very detailed explanation of the new guidelines is available at ><http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/copyright/default.htm> > >Julie > >PS I used the spell check! > > > > >==== LANARK Mailing List ==== >Scottish Genealogy Society >http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/scotgensoc/ > Bill MacDonald macd@connect.ab.ca MacDONALD, MacPHERSON (LOCHABER, SCT; SW Mabou, NS, CAN) 1700 + SINCLAIR (Glasgow, LKS, SCT; Whitby, ON, CAN) 1750 + BALLANTYNE (Culter, LKS, SCT; Whitby, ON, CAN) 1800 +