In a message dated 9/15/2006 5:05:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Ahhh, I did not say it was copyrightable, I said it *may be* copyrightable -- *if* it met the originality standards under US copyright law -- and that's a pretty big "if." <snip> Point taken. << Certain online entities who shall remain nameless have claimed copyright in such images; as far as I know, no court has ruled on the issue. >> If you are referring to Ancestry census images, they haven't claimed copyright to the images. The process may well be patented that produces the images, and the database as a database/collection is copyrightable--but the individual images are not. I'm sure the legal department is aware of the fact that making an exact image of public domain data can't be copyrighted. It isn't the same thing as a photographer's "artistic" product. Joan