This was e-mailed to me............. We all need to know about this kind of Genealogy info too. HR3261 has been amended somewhat while in committee. Here is the current wording of interest to us as genealogists. If you wish to make your voice heard on the legislation find your legislator on this listing http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html /SEC. 4. PERMITTED ACTS./ / (a) INDEPENDENTLY GENERATED OR GATHERED INFORMATION- This Act shall not restrict any person from--/ / (1) independently generating or gathering information obtained by means other than extracting it from a database generated, gathered, or maintained by another person; and/ / (2) making that information available in commerce./ / (b) ACTS OF MAKING AVAILABLE IN COMMERCE BY NONPROFIT SCIENTIFIC OR RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS- Subject to section 9, the making available in commerce of a substantial part of a database by a nonprofit scientific or research institution, including an employee or agent of such institution acting within the scope of such employment or agency, for nonprofit scientific or research purposes shall not be prohibited by section 3 if the court determines that the making available in commerce of the information in the database is reasonable under the circumstances, taking into consideration the customary practices associated with such uses of such database by nonprofit scientific or research institutions and other factors that the court determines relevant./ / (c) HYPERLINKING- Nothing in this Act shall restrict the act of hyperlinking of one online location to another or the providing of a reference or pointer (including such reference or pointer in a directory or index) to a database./ / (d) NEWS REPORTING- Nothing in this Act shall restrict any person from making available in commerce information for the primary purpose of news reporting, including news and sports gathering, dissemination, and comment, unless the information is time sensitive and has been gathered by a news reporting entity, and making available in commerce the information is part of a consistent pattern engaged in for the purpose of direct competition. /