We live in a litigious society, and yes, there are people who spend money on just this sort of thing. Not long ago a very reputable Ca. historian whom I knew personally as a lovely man and one of impeccable integrity was accused of plagiarism. His name was Stephen Ambrose - wrote of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Union Pacific R.R. etc. His son helped him do research. His son lifted a couple of paragraphs [one could argue if he took away from the original author's value or in fact enhanced the value of the original's author's work, but Stephen Ambrose was plastered all over the papers for weeks with negative publicity. Ambrose didn't have to be sued. His reputation was destroyed and about a year ago, not too long after the incident, he died of a heart attack; all because his son did not give attribution for a few sentences. But, all that Stephen Ambrose dedicated his whole life too, was destroyed in an eye blink. The one's I'd like to see get it in the shorts are the instructor's who unscrupulously take their students work and publish it as their own! marilyn ElaineDecker@cs.com wrote: >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 > > > >