I recently attended a seminar on Copyright Law moderated by three copyright lawyers and this was the hottest topic of the day. They said that copyright law was unclear right now regarding links on the internet. Basically, the law hasn't had time to catch up to technology yet. However, the lawyers advised those attending that, in this early stage, one should apply the same copyright rules one would apply to appending someone else's material to your own book. That any work created by any author (published or unpublished) that is used by another without permission (and I would imagine especially without credit) is copyright infringement and therefore punishible as such. I think someone should let the webmaster of the site in question know that this is the case and I would imagine an apology would be forthcoming. MJ Allen County3@aol.com writes: > This site appears to be getting a "Free Ride" using materials from other > sites, for example, mine, and crediting Rootsweb for all the work I have > done > and many of you have helped me with. It also has commercial sponsors and if > I > am correct, someone is making money from all the expense I have incurred and > > all the work I and many of you have done for free, (at our own expense). I > need to look this over more carefully, but my first impression is that it is > > running off with the free goods and making it look like they are doing > something. I am finding my own pages linked from theirs with Rootsweb given > as the source (I Pay money to Rootsweb to rent space for my site) and not > crediting <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-County > Genealogy Site</A>