In a message dated 4/8/2000 12:04:27 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Edgefield County, South Carolina: Deed Books 13, 14, 15. Abstracted by > Carol Wells, published by Heritage Books, Inc. 1997 > > I am assuming that you know that by publishing the information in this book you are breaking the copyright laws... and with Carol Wells being a personal friend of mine I would hate to have to tell her the books she worked so hard on are now on the internet and that her income is being underminded by you. This woman is in her seventies. She has only her retirement income and her income from these books to live off of. She could file a law suite against you. Please do not publish copyrighted material. Only those books that were published before 1923 are out of copyright. Annette Womack

At 07:22 PM 04/08/2000 , you wrote: >Please do not publish copyrighted material. Only those books that were >published before 1923 are out of copyright. I have to wholeheartedly agree! Unless you're ready to meet the author in court, do not post copyrighted material to this list. On the other hand, facts taken from public records are not copyrighted. It's the manner in which they are delivered or presented (published, etc) that are copyrighted. Sue McCarty-L listowner