This question keeps coming up from time to time. As a retired chemist, let me say that if everyone worried about using information from another source, science would grind to an absolute halt. Give credit to the source or sources of your information, and then forget about it. Is the other person making money from selling the information that you are acquiring? Are you making money from selling the information that you are publishing? If the answer is yes, and if you copy the information word for word without giving the other person credit, then you may be liable for damages. In that unlikely situation, they can sue you. But I will bet you never get sued. If you give credit to the source in your publication, you are actually giving them free advertising. Leroy Miller ************************************************************* On Jun 17, 2008, at 5:00 AM, bobtheachey@comcast.net wrote: > Is a person tracing their own grandparental data, and finding such > information in claimed copywrited information on the web, guilty of > copywrite infringment when publishing their own line? > ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== > PABERKS@rootsweb.com > > To contact the List Administrator: > Rick Berkheiser, PABERKS-admin@rootsweb.com > > To visit the Berks Message Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec? > htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.b > erks > > To visit the Berks County, PA website: > http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ > Hosted by Nancy Freehafer > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PABERKS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message