> > Boy this way you have to send message with Genealogy from newspapers now > >is awful. I have a fellow researcher who is a public school librarian. When I first started putting newspaper information on a county website in 1999, I asked her advice pertaining to newspaper articles and copyright laws. I have finally located that article in my files. This is what she wrote: "Newspaper info. is copyrighted the same as other items in print. I had to get a permission letter to abstract 1939 Pioneer ed. of our local newspaper. However, the editors are usually quite cooperative and will graciously provide you the "published with permission of..." if you just ask & explain the situation. Anything older than 1920 is free of copyright. Also keep in mind that info. is not copyrightable, just the format. You could index the info. and not need their permission." I believe Earline has permission of the newspaper. If that is true, that's the only permission she needs. And, if the article is older than 1920 she needs no one's permission. Sheridan

Some person some time abt 1 month ago, got angry as she published an Obit with a certain persons name who happened to still be alive that weas related and or attended the funeral. That was the reason the person gave. I didn't see the Obit but was from one of the newspapers in Oregon, ( the Dallas), I think., that she has been doing for a long time. They complained so now she don't do it. Made a big fuss etc. Our Genealogy is getting much bad things being done to us getting it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheridan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 11:05 AM Subject: [OREGON] Re: OREGON-D Digest V05 #98 > > > > Boy this way you have to send message with Genealogy from newspapers now > > >is awful. > > I have a fellow researcher who is a public school librarian. When I first started putting > newspaper information on a county website in 1999, I asked her advice pertaining to newspaper > articles and copyright laws. I have finally located that article in my files. This is what she > wrote: > > "Newspaper info. is copyrighted the same as other items in print. I had to get a permission > letter to abstract 1939 Pioneer ed. of our local newspaper. However, the editors are usually > quite cooperative and will graciously provide you the "published with permission of..." if you > just ask & explain the situation. > > Anything older than 1920 is free of copyright. Also keep in mind that info. is not copyrightable, > just the format. You could index the info. and not need their permission." > > I believe Earline has permission of the newspaper. If that is true, that's the only permission > she needs. And, if the article is older than 1920 she needs no one's permission. > > Sheridan > > > > ==== OREGON Mailing List ==== > To see the website for Oregon > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/ > -=* To see what this list is doing *=- > http://www.wvi.com/~wb/Oregon.html > For ALL list business Admin, leave, or the archives. > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OR/misc.html > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >