On Thu, 15 May 2003, Connie Snyder wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I thought I would pass this along to you. I was approached by > someone wanting to use a cemetery index that we have posted on my > county site. It's for findagrave.com. I refused for two reasons. > First, the person who walked and submitted the index isn't > reachable now and cannot give her permission. Second, we have a > state-wide policy that people can copy the information for > personal uses only. They should link to our information instead > of copying it to another webpage. > > Do we have a national policy about this kind of thing? I know > that the Archives does. Our state put a policy in some time ago. > Would this be something that should be suggested for all county > sites? Anybody can copy data from the Texas archives to their county web site or private web site as long as they get permission from the submitter. The county web sites can give to whoever they choose, assuming that the submitter agrees. David David W. Morgan dmorgan@efn.org Honolulu Hawaii SC - TXGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/ FM - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm ** http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/