Elaine and others.... Guess it all depends how important of an issue it is for a person, and what "value" they place on the many years of their research and hard work.. For some it is the whole principle of the matter. Would you want to see a person prosecuted for coming into your house and robbing you of all your valuables? Of Course you would. I really see no difference. A crook is a crook. If data is copied and posted by another with out expressed permission of the author...It's stealing and in direct violation of copyrighted material. We have gone through this Copyright issue before on these lists. Sue Roe... didn't you post some good Copyright laws before on this list about 4 years ago?. I would re-forward them but I might be in violation(laughing) I kept them in a Misc folder for reference as they were so helpful! Is it ok if I repost them here or would you mind posting them again? They were excellent! Penny From: <ElaineDecker@cs.com> To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] The facts of the new copyright bill. > In a message dated 3/19/04 6:32:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, > schoolbell@ulink.net writes: > > << attorney. He may be only one of a few attorney's who think this way, > but he says while you may have the legal edge, that it isn't always > practical to sue. >> > > Can you imagine spending thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer because > someone copied something from your genealogy online records? Wish I were that rich. > > > ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list in list mode send an email with the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following address: NYOtsego-l-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.627 / Virus Database: 402 - Release Date: 3/16/04
Thats a great idea to post them. However, please be aware that these laws change, especially now that lots of people are using the internet. Interpretations and laws vary from lawyer to lawyer, state to state and country to country. Some good sites to look at are: www.copyright.gov/ www.whatiscopyright.org/ http://library.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getfile pl?file=/articles/pmsllp/pmsllp000049.html http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/aVoid.htm http://law.duke.edu/ip/ The biggest thing to know is that the burden of proof lies with the person or company claiming copyright infringement. This is NOT an easy thing to do especially with items of public knowledge, like genealogy. Someone can take your information, change the wording, change the form or order, then it becomes their intellectual property. Is this morally right? No. Is this legal? If the information is public knowledge, Yes. If the information is personal knowledge, like from a diary, No. If you have shared this personal knowledge with more than one person and that person shared it with someone else? Yes. -------Original Message------- From: NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com Date: 03/19/04 20:54:07 To: NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] The facts of the new copyright bill. Elaine and others.... Guess it all depends how important of an issue it is for a person, and what "value" they place on the many years of their research and hard work.. For some it is the whole principle of the matter. Would you want to see a person prosecuted for coming into your house and robbing you of all your valuables? Of Course you would. I really see no difference. A crook is a crook. If data is copied and posted by another with out expressed permission of the author...It's stealing and in direct violation of copyrighted material. We have gone through this Copyright issue before on these lists. Sue Roe... didn't you post some good Copyright laws before on this list about 4 years ago?. I would re-forward them but I might be in violation(laughing) I kept them in a Misc folder for reference as they were so helpful! Is it ok if I repost them here or would you mind posting them again? They were excellent! Penny From: <ElaineDecker@cs.com> To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] The facts of the new copyright bill. > In a message dated 3/19/04 6:32:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, > schoolbell@ulink.net writes: > > << attorney. He may be only one of a few attorney's who think this way, > but he says while you may have the legal edge, that it isn't always > practical to sue. >> > > Can you imagine spending thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer because > someone copied something from your genealogy online records? Wish I were that rich. > > > ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list in list mode send an email with the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following address: NYOtsego-l-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.627 / Virus Database: 402 - Release Date: 3/16/04 ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list in digest mode send an email with the word, unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following address: NYOtsego-d-request@rootsweb.com ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237