Will one of you do it in a more abstruse manner than I did?R ----- Original Message ----- From: <Mjoallen@aol.com> To: <PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 21 01 PM Subject: [PABRADFO] Re: Pirate links > 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 That any work created by any author (published or unpublished) 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> > >