If you really want to see the proposed legislation, you can view it by going to http://thomas.loc.gov/ and in the place to type in the bill you are interested in, put "HR3261", then click on search. This is the bill that makes any database or compilation made by anyone (other than a person) its copyright and it thus becomes illegal to take it out of a database. In the course of time the term "database" may be expanded to include many other items not now thought of as a database, including compilations of genealogy; hence, depending on the legal interpretation, we could be breaking the law by extracting our ancestors information from someone's database. Can you imagine someone suing you for taking your great grandma's birthdate out of their database; then having you come back with the fact that you got it from someone else's database, not theirs? I can foresee a lot of litigation in the offing if this becomes law. I recommend that you take a look at it and, if you don't like it, let your reps in Congress know about it. Congress makes a lot of good laws. This is not one of them. It is easier to stop it from becoming law than it is to remove it from the books. Cliff Hayes