A person is not the "author" of a book of compilations..........does this matter in the copyright law? -------------- Original message -------------- From: Maggie <[email protected]> > Hi all, > I received this advice from a member, and so therefore I am asking that anyone > who would like me to look something up for them, PLEASE email me directly. > [email protected] > Also, if you already submitted a request to the list, and not to me, please > resubmit your request to my email. I want nothing more than to help people in > their research, but I also do not want to break any copyright laws! > Thanks everyone! > Maggie > > > > > Maggie: > > It's very generous of you to be willing to do lookups > in the Humphrey book. However, the other person who > posted to the list is correct that techncially > speaking you are a bit in violation of Humphrey's > copyright in posting your responses to a public list. > With a current publication date of 1993 it will be a > very long time before this book is in public domain. > > Fair Use provisions of the Copyright Law permit a > small amount of copying for 'research purposes' > without consent of the author, however when doing > multiple lookups and responses online you go beyond > Fair Use and tred in dangerous waters. > > You should write to the PABUCKS list again and tell > everyone to contact you privately off-list if they are > interested in a lookup and should restrict your > answers directly to that person. > > You're leaving yourself open to a civil action (you > and you alone not Rootsweb which takes no > responsibility for your postings). If it were me I'd > request the Help Desk to remove any responses from the > List archives. > > Again I think it's great of you to offer to do lookups > since doing so has probably flooded your email inbox. > I just thought you probably didn't know that it's > copyright infringement and you could be putting > yourself in an awkward position. > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > ____ > Be a PS3 game guru. > Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. > http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > ____ > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message