Please honor the copywrite laws when doing lookups from published sources. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: Pam Arnold <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:28 PM Subject: List Owner Alert > Listers > > Laird C. Towle, Ph.D., CEO, Heritage Books, Inc. , www.heritagebooks.com > has recently threatened legal action against a member of another Rootsweb > list for emailing 'lookup' information from a book by Heritage Books author > Shirley Mikesell. > > I think it is important to respect copyright laws, especially when offering > lookups from books we own. One should NOT quote major parts of the book or > publication. However, copyright laws are not designed to prevent citations > and excerpts from published material, especially in a non-profit environment > such as this list. > > You should read for yourself the copyright information at the Library of > Congress web site : http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html > This section discusses 'fair use': > http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/92chap1.html#107 > > > If you have questions you may also review the Rootsweb Acceptable Use Policy > at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html > > > One of the reasons I am bringing this up is that ALL of the material in > question pertains to Montgomery County. There are many Montgomery county > names listed in these few postings - Metzker, Gripe, Ulery, Beck, Repp, > Shively, Puterbaugh to name some. You can search the archives for the > Brethren list at http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl, enter > BRETHREN and then Montgomery for the 2001 files. Or you can look through > the threaded archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN/2001-06 > > Pam Arnold > > > > > ==== MONTGOMERY_CO_OH Mailing List ==== > ---------------------------------- > If you'd like to reminisce about > old times in Dayton, OH, please join our Memories List > [email protected] > -------------------------------- > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >