FYI gf -------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:01:15 -0500 Old-To: FRAZIER-L@rootsweb.com From: "Brian K. Caudill" <bcaudill@metrolink.net> Subject: Re: Did you send my unproven information to Resent-From: FRAZIER-L@rootsweb.com To: FRAZIER-L@rootsweb.com At 11:37 PM 3/16/99 -0600, Gloria Frazier wrote: >I believe Family Tree Maker, if you have a homepage at their >site, they consider your information to be theirs. I think in >fine print. Correct me if I am wrong. The fine print can be found on the Family Treemaker "User Home Page Agreement of Use" Web Page at http://www.familytreemaker.com/uhpagree.html. The real "gotcha" is located under the heading "Ownership and Rights to Use Materials" about half-way down the page. It reads as follows: "Ownership and Rights to Use Materials" You represent that you are the sole owner of all rights in Materials posted by you (including all related copyrights) or that you have the absolute right to license their use as provided in this section. While you will retain ownership of the copyright in the Materials posted by you, you agree that all Materials posted by you shall become part of a database in the User Home Pages, and that we will own the compilation copyright in that database. In addition, you hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such Materials, any portions of such Materials and any derivative works created from such Materials, in print, electronic and other media, by any means now known or developed in the future. We may sublicense all of our rights and licenses or assign them to third parties. Neither we nor any third party using the Materials in accordance with this section will be obligated to pay you any royalties or other compensation for use of the Materials. I wonder how many people actually read this before creating their Family Treemaker Home Page. By the way, my Family Treemaker Home Page is at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/a/u/Brian-K-Caudill/index.html. :) It contains a Descendant Report for my Frazier line (Solomon Frazier). I read the "User Home Page Agreement of Use" before creating my FTM Home Page, and I must say that I was a little apprehensive about it. For all the good it will do, I included a NOTICE at the bottom of my Home Page which states, "The information contained in the following Reports should only be used as a guideline in your research and not taken as proven fact. If you have any corrections or additions to the information contained in the following Reports, please send them to me." Brian K. Caudill Malabar, FL Visit my Letcher County, KY, Genealogy Web Page at http://webpages.metrolink.net/~bcaudill/kygenweb/letcher.htm