You assume erroneously that once you pay for information that it becomes 'your' property. You also assume incorrectly that you are not violating copyright law if you do not re-sell the information. By sharing the information (even though YOU paid for it) you are denying income to the person (or in this case company or corporation) who would have MADE money had you not provided it to others for FREE, so you see, even if you do not sell it you have, in fact, violated copyright law. There is NO way around this legally unless the Mailing List applys for and receives written permisson from the copyright owner (IFHF). Kathy Rhodes -------------- Original message from <mike@obrienclan.com>: -------------- I would guess that since you paid for the information you have, it becomes your property to do as you please making their copyright void as long as you don't try to re-sell their information, which we are not doing here. Mike

To my mind the information is not theirs (IFHF) to copyright! Do the descendants of those named not have a right to the information about their ancestors and which the IFHF are selling in order to make a profit? Again, to my mind, the only claim to copyright that the IFHF can make is in the unique manner or format of the presentation of this information and NOT the information itself. Who owns the information anyway? Surely not the IFHF! On 17/03/2008, littlehouseantiques@att.net <littlehouseantiques@att.net> wrote: > > You assume erroneously that once you pay for information that it becomes > 'your' property. > You also assume incorrectly that you are not violating copyright law if > you do not re-sell > the information. By sharing the information (even though YOU paid for it) > you are denying > income to the person (or in this case company or corporation) who would > have MADE > money had you not provided it to others for FREE, so you see, even if you > do not sell it > you have, in fact, violated copyright law. There is NO way around this > legally unless the > Mailing List applys for and receives written permisson from the copyright > owner (IFHF). > > Kathy Rhodes > -------------- Original message from <mike@obrienclan.com>: -------------- > I would guess that since you paid for the information you have, it becomes > your property to do as you please making their copyright void as long as > you > don't try to re-sell their information, which we are not doing here. > > Mike > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Any one wishing to carry on this discussion about records - contact me off list. The topic on the list is now closed. Christina filidh@carolina.rr.com