I feel the same way as Harold. I tell my contributors that the copyright is still theirs and even state so on my websites. Only the person who submitted the photos can give permission for their use elsewhere.   Shirley --- On Tue, 12/29/09, Harold Kilmer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Harold Kilmer <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Your Guidance is Requested - Cemetery Photos To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 12:54 PM 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/ CC for Curry,  De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lea, Lincoln, Quay,  and  Roosevelt Counties in New Mexico. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike St. Clair/ST" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:31 AM Subject: [STATE-COORD] Your Guidance is Requested - Cemetery Photos > Several of the counties in Idaho have gravestone photos that were > contributed long before I became SC or the current coordinator became CC > and there is nothing to identify who the photographer or the contributor > was.  All we know is that the coordinator at the time the photos were > posted (we don't even know who that CC was) said they had permission to > post the photo. > > One of our coordinators has been asked for permission to upload the photos > to Find A Grave. > > Have any of you faced this situation?  If so, how did you handle it?  If > not, how would you handle it? > > Mike St. Clair > State Coordinator - IDGENWEB > > ------------------------------- > 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