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    1. Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] film reels and the info
    2. Gordon Grening
    3. This same issue came up several months ago. According to the Family History Center in Salt Lake City they do not own the copyrights on the material on the microfilms/fiche. The place where they filmed the material has the copyright, i.e. the church, county or state records office or archives, etc. Making copies of pages from films at a FHC is no different than if you had gone to the actual courthouse and xeroxed a copy of the same document from the actual book. These documents are considered to be in the public domain. I have gone to many a courthouse and either had them make copy of records for me or I copied them myself. Non-govermental materials are different. There you have to get permission to copy the material. At some churches they would xerox a copy of the page for me and at others would only allow me to transcribe the information pertaining to a particular person. The general rule is that you can make a copy as long as it is for your own private use. You can not reproduce a document in a book that you sell or on a web site you may have. To do so you would have to received written permission from the party owing the material, else you are violating the copywrite laws.

    04/14/2009 11:34:47