In a message dated 9/5/2000 7:46:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, KYHARDIN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Hi, I have a problem here and need some advice. As you all know I just started transcribing the Elizabethtown News and everyone seems to be enjoying it. It contains the History of Elizabethtown, By Samuel Haycraft written for the Elizabethtown News in 1866, evidently they ran it again in 1889. I started putting it on a web page as it is too large to send through e-mail, and I thought it would help a lot of people. But I found out that the Hardin county historical Society has put it into a book, when, I dont know.so I dont know whether to continue or not. I wouldn"t want to hurt their sales, and at the same time I dont know what the legal aspects would be. Copyrights ? >> <<(Partial reply) - I wouldn't worry about the Hardin Co Hiostorical Society unless the book is copyrighted material.>> Unfortunately the book says "copyrighted 1960 by the Hardin County Historical Society" - which I think is, pardon me, a crock -- if Laura is transcribing from the original news clippings, which ran in 1869 according to the book, I don't see how the HCHS can complain - that's exactly what they did, and anything older than 1923 (1926?) is fair game, from what I understand -- but I agree, as hard as she is working, it should go somewhere more permanent than the mail list. just my 2 cents worth.... Linda Koenig Louisville, KY