I just joined this group so I may have missed what led to this post. My local Family History Library and my County Library both have computers attached to a microfilm machine. You may save pages to a cd, flash drive, etc. I am assuming that it would not be proper (legal?) to copy the whole film, but if you only copy pages that have your ancestors on them, it should be okay in my opinion. There is no charge for doing this. I do not know where you are as far as what films you are viewing, but I hope this helps you in some way. Bobbie > > In a way-I can understand how everyone feels. At a quarter a page this hasn't been a really cheap > hobby for me. My children call this my "change of life" project. I have copied each page of the > Resehl reel and still working on Burow and Speck. These church records list -what I believe is > sponsors or godparents too and where they live. It is a very interesting project. The surnames are > just too many to list-so if you have an inkling that maybe you might be from that area-just send > me an e-mail and I'm happy to share. If that gets me into trouble somewhere-oh well-I'll be very > sorry for what I've done. I was raised with four siblings and everything had to be shared. > Everyone-good hunting. > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Bobbie, you are very lucky. The local FHC has one manual-wind microfilm reader with no copying capabilities, let alone the computer connection. The reader is often out of service, which can make for difficulties when there are several of us who have ordered films and are waiting to try to see them, albeit scratchy and dim. My understanding is that the budget is going toward digitizing rather than upgrading on-site equipment, but it is very frustrating to not really have any other option for being able to see these resources. --Kristi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobbie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] film reels and the info >I just joined this group so I may have missed what led to this post. My >local Family History Library and my County > Library both have computers attached to a microfilm machine. You may save > pages to a cd, flash drive, etc. I am > assuming that it would not be proper (legal?) to copy the whole film, but > if you only copy pages that have your > ancestors on them, it should be okay in my opinion. There is no charge > for doing this. > > I do not know where you are as far as what films you are viewing, but I > hope this helps you in some way. > > Bobbie > >> >> In a way-I can understand how everyone feels. At a quarter a page this >> hasn't been a really cheap >> hobby for me. My children call this my "change of life" project. I have >> copied each page of the >> Resehl reel and still working on Burow and Speck. These church records >> list -what I believe is >> sponsors or godparents too and where they live. It is a very interesting >> project. The surnames are >> just too many to list-so if you have an inkling that maybe you might be >> from that area-just send >> me an e-mail and I'm happy to share. If that gets me into trouble >> somewhere-oh well-I'll be very >> sorry for what I've done. I was raised with four siblings and everything >> had to be shared. >> Everyone-good hunting. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Basically, Copyright Law allows you to copy about 10% as "fair usage", when it's being used to support your research, or to review something. Copying anything in its entirety that is still subject to copyright is definitely out. Copyright Law varies from country to country, although there has been efforts to harmonise it internationally. The Law that applies is the Law of the country where the Copyright is held, not where you happen to be when you do your copying. Finally, if you breach copyright, your are stealing another person's income. In family history research terms, this can have a severe impact on the viability of projects to make archival records more readily available for us to use in our research. You can kill the goose that lays the golden egg! One Family History Society in England that undertaken a great of transcription and publishing of old records in booklets and on microfiche, and relied on the income generated from the sales, reported a massive 30% to 40% drop in their revenue as a result of copyright breaches with the advent of the internet and mailing lists. David Armstrong Maylands, Western Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Bobbie To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] film reels and the info I just joined this group so I may have missed what led to this post. My local Family History Library and my County Library both have computers attached to a microfilm machine. You may save pages to a cd, flash drive, etc. I am assuming that it would not be proper (legal?) to copy the whole film, but if you only copy pages that have your ancestors on them, it should be okay in my opinion. There is no charge for doing this. I do not know where you are as far as what films you are viewing, but I hope this helps you in some way. Bobbie

I'm interested in this copyright business as it pertains to the films loaned from the FHL to the FHC.? Does the FHL actually hold a copyright to a film of old records?? It seems to me that because they are old records, there would be no copyright.? Is that true or not?? And, if the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is putting everything online, would there still be a consideration about copyrights?? If someone is copying and transcribing the records on a film which will be made available in its entirety soon, isn't that what the FHC would like? Just wondering.... Nancy M. -----Original Message----- From: David Armstrong <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 9:03 pm Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] film reels and the info Basically, Copyright Law allows you to copy about 10% as "fair usage", when it's being used to support your research, or to review something. Copying anything in its entirety that is still subject to copyright is definitely out. Copyright Law varies from country to country, although there has been efforts to harmonise it internationally. The Law that applies is the Law of the country where the Copyright is held, not where you happen to be when you do your copying. Finally, if you breach copyright, your are stealing another person's income. In family history research terms, this can have a severe impact on the viability of projects to make archival records more readily available for us to use in our research. You can kill the goose that lays the golden egg! One Family History Society in England that undertaken a great of transcription and publishing of old records in booklets and on microfiche, and relied on the income generated from the sales, reported a massive 30% to 40% drop in their revenue as a result of copyright breaches with the advent of the internet and mailing lists. David Armstrong Maylands, Western Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Bobbie To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] film reels and the info I just joined this group so I may have missed what led to this post. My local Family History Library and my County Library both have computers attached to a microfilm machine. You may save pages to a cd, flash drive, etc. I am assuming that it would not be proper (legal?) to copy the whole film, but if you only copy pages that have your ancestors on them, it should be okay in my opinion. There is no charge for doing this. I do not know where you are as far as what films you are viewing, but I hope this helps you in some way. Bobbie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] sweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message