For some reason Ms.. Carder choose to inform me of by e-mail of those copyright laws. I decided not to reply to her until I got a better understanding of what I had I gotten myself into defending Mark and his web site. Since Mark you have answered Ms Carder. I will withdraw from this discussion . I still feel that Mark and his good work has been wronged. And I feel public records should be put out there for people who can not afford to buy every information that they need.. If the Allen Co. Gen. Soc. wants to sell it fine, but I do not believe they should claim copyright on what is public records. So I am done . Norita Shepherd Moss Homosassa, FL mossnb1@earthlink.net Find out what God would have you do, And do that little well; For what is great and what is small The Lord alone can tell.___Anon EarthLink Revolves Around You. > [Original Message] > From: Mark Gierhart <markg@watchtv.net> > To: Debbie Carder <dcarder2@woh.rr.com>; <ohallen@rootsweb.com> > Date: 1/27/2007 11:15:42 PM > Subject: Re: [OHALLEN] Allen County Cemetery Webpage Updates > > Debbie, > > First, I do want to state that you are correct, the Society did not ask > me > to remove my website. However, since my website is 70% made up from > materials which are now ACGS copyrighted, I see no reason to continue. Also > you mentioned for me to use information that is not yet published by the > Society.. To me this > means, next month, if the material(s) are published, I'd again be using what > will > become Copyrighted material.. No way to win on this one! > > When I first started , toward making site, I spent hours and hours > looking up materials, for free, > at the Historical Museum... Researchers would e-mail me their requests, I'd > visit the > Museum, hand writing into my tablets the cemetery information, then e-mail > the > researcher back... After months of accumultating this researched data, I > decided to post > the information on a website for others to view.. It cut down on a lot of > duplicate e-mail requests. > > As I'm sure you know, hand writing pages of published material is very > time consuming.. Several > months later the Society starting compiling the cemetery notebooks and > published several (3 at that time) > cemetery books.. It was at this time I requested and was granted permission > to use this books to continue > my website posting.. I had a Hand Scanner and was able to scan each page, > and with OCR software > post directly to a Web Page, cutting my posting time greatly.. > > This whole project was designed to help "out of towners"; those that are > not able to visit > Allen County to do their own research. I have never received any type of > payment, and had even > purchased the books that I used for posting of material. The material that > was posted on the website, > like the copyrighted books, came from a variey of sources; from stone > inscriptions I took, from > other researchers (correcting the errors they have found) , newspaper obits > etc... > > So for me to "weed through" the posted information on the Web Site and > remove ACGS copyrighted > material would be very time consuming if not impossible.. Hence - removal of > website... And Mr. Brogee's > E-mail to me containing the name of his Attorney was a bit much.... > > Mark > > > Visit the Allen County OHGenWeb site. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHALLEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message