Without seeing the two examples, i.e. your site and the other site, it's impossible to comment -- except to remind you that //facts// are not copyrightable, e.g. who was born or died when and where. Expository material (e.g. notes) may be copyrighted by the original author, which copyright will eventually expire. Style and format may also be copyrighted. Gloria Lane wrote: > I have had a complaint from someone about some family history > material that another person asked me to post on the Woodruff County, > AR web site, and I did. It's about the former person's family and > using material that he originally had on another web site. He's also > saying that the post is not giving proper credit in the article(s), > and that there are copyright problems. He's pretty upset. > > Never run into this. Does anyone know if there are any policies or > procedures about that sort of thing? > > Gloria > coordinator, Woodruff County, Arkansas > http://www.rootsweb.com/~arwoodru > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ 480 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 117,600+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: [email protected] Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost

As I understand, neither person has copyrighted sites or material. The former (fellow issuing the complaint) removed his web site, in anger, so not sure, can't compare. But still un-copyrighted. Gloria At 10:29 AM 8/18/2007, you wrote: >Without seeing the two examples, i.e. your site and the other site, it's >impossible to comment -- except to remind you that //facts// are not >copyrightable, e.g. who was born or died when and where. Expository >material (e.g. notes) may be copyrighted by the original author, which >copyright will eventually expire. Style and format may also be copyrighted. > >Gloria Lane wrote: > > I have had a complaint from someone about some family history > > material that another person asked me to post on the Woodruff County, > > AR web site, and I did. It's about the former person's family and > > using material that he originally had on another web site. He's also > > saying that the post is not giving proper credit in the article(s), > > and that there are copyright problems. He's pretty upset. > > > > Never run into this. Does anyone know if there are any policies or > > procedures about that sort of thing? > > > > Gloria > > coordinator, Woodruff County, Arkansas > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~arwoodru > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > > >-- >Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA >Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ >480 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century >New England & European roots. Total population: 117,600+ >Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ >email: [email protected] >Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled >by, and that has made all the difference. > -Robert Frost > > >------------------------------- >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