I totally agree here.  I am printing a book for my family, which I am "selling" to them just for the cost of printing (so not really selling, per se) and I have included all of the credit information, so I do not feel that I am abusing the situation.  I certainly am not making any money off of it.  As an author myself, I would appreciate anyone who wants to use my material to contact me.  That is what I did, so just ask the publisher, or author, if you can use the info in a book that only your family will have copies of and the authors most likely will graciously allowed you to do that.  It is a path a person may follow.  Of course if the printed material is very old, that may be an impossibility.  When I see someone put info from material on the net but don't give credit where credit is due, it bothers me, so I guess my suggestion is to ask, always ask, if possible. Sande   "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – T.S. Eliot "To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions." – William James ----- Original Message ---- From: Leroy Miller <lmchemcons@earthlink.net> To: paberks@rootsweb.com Cc: PABERKS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:50:26 AM Subject: Re: [PABERKS] Genealogy copywrite question 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 ==== 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