Thank you, Paula -------------- Original message -------------- From: paulatrefun@comcast.net > 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 > ==== 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