I appreciate the input many of you have given me on this. Let me point out that I found a written policy at Find A Grave which appears to prohibit the sort of sharing that a visitor at one of our county sites requested, unless the photographer provides written permission. I suspect that like most of us they don't have any means to enforce such a prohibition, but perhaps their heart is in the right place on this issue. One of their faqs, at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=listFaqs#142, says: Can I add a photo that I found on a different website? No. Please do not add photos to Find A Grave that you have acquired from another source. Photos fall under copyright protection laws. In general, if you did not take the photo yourself, you should not post it. The only exceptions to this are photos that are old enough to have fallen into the public domain and photos for which you have received written consent from the copyright holder. Mike St. Clair -------------------------------------------------- From: "Harold Kilmer" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 11:54 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Your Guidance is Requested - Cemetery Photos > Mike: > > I do not feel comfortable with allowing anyone to copy for any reason and > post any record donated to my NM State/County sites: however I have given > permission for others to link to several of our tombstone, death and > marriage sites for home genealogy research only. These records are > donated > to the XXGenWeb sites for free home use only. (I added the Home Use). > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Harold Kilmer, NMGenWeb SC http://www.nmgenweb.us/