Hello List and Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays / and Happy New Year. LOL I received an email question about photos submitted to and posted on the PAGenWeb. Basically, the person wanted to know if she could use any posted photos in her "tree." She's raised an excellent question about copyright, fair use, and rights to copy or include these photos into another work. I'm not a Copyrights Attorney-- the best I could do is direct her to email the submitter and ask permission to use the photos. But I thought I should put the question back to ALL the submitters. If you submitted photos to me, send me an email OFF-LIST. Tell me whether you want... 1. to ALLOW any visitor to copy photos from the website for PERSONAL use only or if you want 2. a statement saying that *you* must be contacted before a web visitor can copy the photo. At minimum, maybe I should add a statement that NO photos should be used in a "for profit" project, such as in a book offered for sale. And, at minimum, I should probably state that ALL photo submissions ARE allow limited use for personal family histories (not for sale). Those 2 statements seem reasonable to apply to all photos published on the web. If previous submitters (or anyone else) wants to comment on this subject, I'm all ears. Just write OFF-LIST. I haven't gotten new photos in a while. Maybe after the holidays, Listers will have time to pick out some ancestor photos and submit them. Remember on any submission (photo or just info) to include your full name, email address, and any "notes" you want me to include. Please use washington.co.pa.webmaster "AT" gmail.com for submissions. I continue to add items to the websites, so keep checking your names. I've been adding "local glances" also but I'm in the process of moving those to a new area of the website. Use the on-site search. Web addresses are listed below. Have nice holidays, Judy -- Washington County PA Websites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian/ http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian/ http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~florian/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/