I was told that if the person paid for the obit to be put in the paper it can be used, if the paper did it without charge they owned the copyright. Judy On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Matthew D. Friend < blindgenealogist@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a question for you folks! I never heard of this before in all the > years I been doing genealogy while scanning things to be in electronic > format for my own personal resource library. Why would someone state such > thing. Any ideas or thoughts on this? > > "Recently, I received newspaper clippings from a woman in California who > belongs to a Genealogy society. She sent me obituaries and death notices of > Idahoans who died either in CA or had CA connections. Some were from the > following : Boise, Blackfoot, Roy, Montpelier, and Oakley, Idaho. I was > told that to scan these newspaper clippings might go against copyright > laws. > " > > Matt Friend > > -- > *Matthew D. Friend* > Conway, Arkansas > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MatthewDFriend > Twitter: @matthewdfriend > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > STATE-COORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Native American Genealogy http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/ AccessGenealogy http://www.accessgenealogy.com/