Mary, one thing a lot of people don't understand is that all that is necessary for a legal copyright is that you can prove you wrote it first. It does not have to have gone through the copyright procedure. This is one point in the law that many people have trouble with and in the case of genealogy could really lead you astray. DC >From: M1555@aol.com >Reply-To: KYJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com >To: KYJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Copyrights >Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:52:50 EST > >I have searched from cover to cover on my copies of the East Kentuckian and >I >cannot find anywhere that it says that it is copyrighted. Maybe I need my >glasses changed but I just can't find where it says copyright. > >I do know that starting in March of 1998 a young man in Wilmington, Ohio by >the name of Lukas P. Murphy became the editor of the East Kentuckian. I >believe he bought the rights from Clayton Cox before Clayton died. > >Mary in Ohio > > >==== KYJOHNSO Mailing List ==== >Comments or suggestions pertaining to this list may be sent to the >listowner, Ann Lemaster-Applegate >annapplegate@maysvilleky.net >Visit the Johnson County Historical Society homepage: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjchs/johnson.html > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com