Clif Hinds wrote: Basically, I am curious about these entries that have been extracted from the Athens Messenger. How does the copyright lay with the OHGALLIA list and not with the Athens Messenger? Actually, the "list" doesn't own any material or have any rights to anything. MyFamily.com has distribution rights anywhere within their domain. From their Acceptable Use Policy: " For this Content, the submitter is the owner, and RootsWeb.com is only a distributor. By submitting Content to RootsWeb.com, you grant MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the Service, a limited license to the Content to use, host, and distribute that Content and allow hosting and distribution on co-branded Services of that Content. You should submit only Content which belongs to you and will not violate the property or other rights of other people or organizations." The way I read this, once one submits a message to the list one has granted the license to MyFamily.com to distribute it anywhere within it's properties as it wishes. So the attempt to limit it to one list is fruitless. Marty Cassidy

so basicly if my family.com wanted to take the information we post here and publish it it would be their right, right? interesting take care, Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Cassidy" <cassidym@earthlink.net> To: <OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [OHGALLIA-L] Copyright Law > Clif Hinds wrote: > > Basically, I am curious about these entries that have been extracted from the Athens Messenger. How does the copyright lay with the OHGALLIA list and not with the Athens Messenger? > > > > Actually, the "list" doesn't own any material or have any rights to anything. MyFamily.com has distribution rights anywhere within their domain. From their Acceptable Use Policy: > > " For this Content, the submitter is the owner, and RootsWeb.com is only a distributor. By submitting Content to RootsWeb.com, you grant MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the Service, a limited license to the Content to use, host, and distribute that Content and allow hosting and distribution on co-branded Services of that Content. You should submit only Content which belongs to you and will not violate the property or other rights of other people or organizations." > > The way I read this, once one submits a message to the list one has granted the license to MyFamily.com to distribute it anywhere within it's properties as it wishes. So the attempt to limit it to one list is fruitless. > > Marty Cassidy > > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > Please keep your topic related to genealogical research > in Gallia County, Ohio. > > >