First of all Muskogee County Genealogical Society, gave permission for LDS to use the information that WE copyrighted! Here is an excert from LDS.... "Notes and photocopies/lasercopies may be made of the microfilm frames; however the microfilms themselves are copyrighted by the LDS and are subject to such proprietary copyright laws and permissions" Thanks, Alissa MCGS --- catz <catz@kcisp.net> wrote: > If you are transcribing from microfilm, you can post > anywhere you want. > Just because some else also has the same microfilm > roll, does not mean they > have copyright! I imagine that your postings are > parallel or the same as > what the society has printed off for sale. So they > may have assumed you > have taken your material from their phamplets or > books. Same original > material, same information. Maybe someone should > have asked first eh? > Before jumping and accusing. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <SMM1033@aol.com> > To: <OKMUSKOG-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:49 PM > Subject: Re: [OKMUSKOG] Attn: Smm1033@aol.com > > > > I have a question: If someone acquires > information and even if it has > been > > published by a gen soc........is there a problem > with it being shared? If > > that person acquired the information from public > records?? > > > > > > > ==== OKMUSKOG Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Muskogee Co., OK > list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to OKMUSKOG-l-request@rootsweb.com or if > you are on the digest list > to OKMUSKOG-d-request@rootsweb.com > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ===== WE ARE....BECAUSE THEY WERE..... Muskogee County Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~okmuscgs/index.htm Muskogee County Genealogy and History http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ok/county/muskogee __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com