If that was in reference to what I said, no that is not a correct interpretation of what I meant. An obvious attempt to avoid a copyright infringement by just switching words around is very transparent and does not protect you from guilt. I'm speaking of public records, not private data. Let's say for instance that I had some fancy-dancy way of creating a table of census data and published that in a book. You should not copy table and all, that would be my creation you are copying. But, the data in the table is public information, therefore belongs to everyone. Every copyright case I've ever read hinged on two things: 1) how much you copied, and 2) what you did with it. So common sense is the most valuable yardstick you can use. That and consideration for others. Edna