I did some extensive research on copywright a while back for a project I was working on... publically available data from census images, birth and death records, etc can not be copywrighted. The only way a person who has copywrighted such information is in the MANNER in which the data is displayed on a web page or printed in a book. They can not copywright the info itself. However, if you are copying stories and written accounts as part of your findings, that is copywrighted and you must obtain permission should you want to include that copied story in a genealogy that you publish as your own. Most people who have genealogy websites online falsely state they own the copywright to the data, which is not true. -Paula -------------- Original message -------------- From: bobtheachey@comcast.net > 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.berks > > 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