The commercial companies don't, I think, own the copyright to the digital images - after all these are just scans of TNA's microfilms (except for the 1911 census where there is only one set of official images). But when you use a commercial site you are bound by its terms and conditions, which will almost certainly limit re-use of the material. If you have access to Ancestry, there is way to do it without asking permission from anyone or bothering about any terms and conditions: Ancestry has a 'share this record' option -it places the census image in a publicly accessible location and gives you a link to tell you where it is, a link which you can share with anyone. I've no idea precisely how long such pages remain visible, i.e. how long the URL remains valid, but in my experience it is at least several months. Here's an example: http://sharing.ancestry.co.uk/3640213?h=37a526 Peter -----Original Message----- From: sog-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sog-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Peter Goodey Sent: 30 January 2014 17:45 To: sog-uk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SOG-UK] Census pages Copyright On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 14:08 +0000, Keith Atkinson wrote: > We are a not-for-profit Local Amenity Society compiling an online > Directory of historic buildings in our area. We would like to upload > or link the relevant census pages onto our site to show the > occupants/occupations etc of these buildings over the decades The > easiest way is to use the TNA Census pages. These are presumably > copyrighted but of course widely available online and at TNA. This page may help. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/our-services/crown -copyright.htm "You may quote or transcribe from Crown copyright documents freely and without formal permission. However you must give the document reference number and acknowledge The National Archives as custodian of the document. If you wish to publish an image of a document held at The National Archives (including readers' own photographs of records) then you should contact the Image Library for further advice" If you want to display images downloaded from a commercial company, there may be other copyright issues which you'll have to explore. I suspect that transcriptions would have to be your own original transcriptions and not copied from Ancestry or FMP etc. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3462 / Virus Database: 3684/7045 - Release Date: 01/30/14