The proposed rule only applies to long distance telephone calls made over the internet which are currently free. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Jmmjsm@aol.com <Jmmjsm@aol.com> To: VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com <VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 8:36 PM Subject: Fwd: FCC and Genealogy Acess >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >--part0_911179625_boundary >Content-ID: <0_911179625@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >This will knock me out of the Electronic Genealogy business. Call your >Congressman. Bud/Dad > >--part0_911179625_boundary >Content-ID: <0_911179625@inet_out.mail.csi.com.2> >Content-type: message/rfc822 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >Content-disposition: inline > >Return-Path: <maryloumidkiff@csi.com> >Received: from rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (rly-zb01.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.1]) by > air-zb01.mail.aol.com (v51.16) with SMTP; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:30:09 > -0500 >Received: from NIH2WAAF (smtp6.site1.csi.com [149.174.183.75]) > by rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) > with ESMTP id LAA05404; > Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:30:04 -0500 (EST) >Received: from mail pickup service by csi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; > Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:29:49 -0500 >Sender: maryloumidkiff@csi.com >Received: from CIS (dal-qbu-zoi-vty18.as.wcom.net [209.154.116.18]) > by hil-img-ims-3.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/IMS-1.6) with SMTP id LAA26109; > Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:29:12 -0500 (EST) >From: "Mary Lou Midkiff" <maryloumidkiff@csi.com> >To: "Zitting, Allene" <AJZiptwo@aol.com>, > "Poklemba, Patt" <AlbertP106@aol.com>, > "Northrup, Cheryl" <northrup@iguana.ruralnet.net>, > "Midkiff, Robert L." <BMIDKIFF@worldnet.att.net>, > "Midkiff, Monte" <monte@pacificrim.net>, > "Midkiff, Mike & Diane" <mikemidkiff@msn.com>, > "Midkiff, Mary Lenora" <JTMills@aol.com>, > "Midkiff, Ken W." <@Compuserve.com@compuserve.com>, > "Midkiff, Johnny" <mjmidkiff@aol.com>, > "Midkiff, James M." <Jmmjsm@aol.com>, > "Midkiff, Greg" <espgmid@aol.com>, > "Midkiff, Doug" <Internet:dmidkiff@rochester.infi.net>, > "Midkiff, Clay" > <INTERNET:Internet:http://www.cmidkiff@enogex.com@Internet@compuserve.com>, > "Midkiff, Bob" <bmidkiff@quik.com>, > "Metcalf, Junior Ray" <JrMetcalf@aol.com>, > "Linville, Ada Jean" <glinvil4595@aol.com>, > "Kilgore, Julia" <jakil@gte.net>, "Coppola, Eileen" <E5jc6@aol.com>, > "Midkiff, Charles" <cmidkiff@gte.net>, > "Bryant, Barty" <bartwb@worldnet.att.net>, > "Adkins, J. J." <jjadkins@HiWAAY.net>, > "Kekich, Dorothy Midkiff" <Henwillms@aol.com>, > "Little, Dana Dee" <danadee@uclink4.berkeley.edu>, <Sullivan@aol.com>, > Larry.G.@aol.com, <Potter@aol.com>, Paul@aol.com, <Potter@aol.com>, > Mark@aol.com, "Morehead, Barbara" <barbmore@northcoast.com>, > "Lewis M. Ruddick" <1ruddick@ix.netcom.com>, > "Goodman, Sue" <suelucky1@aol.com>, <Frey@aol.com>, Alberta@aol.com, > "Chadbourne, Ted" <75113.3230@compuserve.com>, <Bennett@aol.com>, > Alana@aol.com, > "Patrick, Joseph" > <Internet:joseph.patrick@worldnet.att.net@compuserve.com>, > "Cole, Al" <INTERNET:condorc@aol.com@compuserve.com>, > "Carman, Beverly" > <INTERNET:INTERNET:bcpeach@bellatlantic.net@INTERNET@compuserve.com>, > "Hendron, Linda Cole" > <INTERNET:INTERNET:lindah@nconline.com@INTERNET@compuserve.com>, > "LLoyd, Mary Lou" <Internet:nlloyd@concentric.net@compuserve.com>, > "McAlister, Sharon" <73372.1745@compuserve.com> >Subject: FCC and Genealogy Acess >Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:24:07 -0600 >Message-ID: <01be0d8f$b4a8d340$0100007f@CIS.Gateway.compuserve.com> >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > >Subject: Re: 2 situations,FCC charging and Genealogy.no access for 1923 > > >>If you get a chance to write your congress man...word coming down from th= >e >>net is this;;; >>Does anyone have any information on this subject?? >>If this is true, it lets me out completely. If this is true & is passed, >>it will certainly clear the telephone lines, LOL >> >>-------------------- >>I just heard on CNN, that the FCC will make decision in TWO weeks as to i= >f >it >>is going to allow a CHARGE, equal to a LONG DISTANCE CALL, EACH time you >>access the Internet! This would stop me from doing genealogy via the >>computer, what about you? Please write your congressman. >>Gladys >>_----------------------------------- >>Looks like this might be serious, & absolutely no joke to it. >>Will continue to check it out... >> >>-------------------- >>>You can locate your Congressman's address at: >>>http://www.house.gov/writerep/ >>> >>>Please write to him/her. >>>Patsy >>> HERE IS THE PROBLEM >>-------------------------------------- >>Sandra Johnson wrote: >> >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>> >>> - Congress Passes Bill Detrimental to Genealogists >>> >>> The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have been working >>> for a while on a bill designed to extend the term of copyright >>> protection by 20 years. H.R. 2589, the House version of copyright >>> term extension and now named, "The Sonny Bono Copyright Term >>> Extension Act," was adopted by the full House or Representatives >>> on March 25, 1998. The bill was sent to the Senate, where it >>> languished for some time. In September the Senate passed a >>> slightly different bill. The two bodies then worked out a >>> compromise document. The House and the Senate passed S. 505 on >>> October 7, 1998. President Clinton signed the bill on October 27, >>> 1998. >>> >>> Per our Constitution, our government, "to promote the science and >>> useful arts" ... secures "for limited times to authors and >>> inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and >>> discoveries." This balances the right of a person to make a >>> profit, with the right of the people to the work (so they can >>> freely make derivative works). >>> >>> Until 1979, the copyright term was 56 years: one 28 year term, >>> extendible for an additional 28 years. Hence, in 1978 all works >>> created in or before 1922 were in the public domain. In 1979, >>> Congress RETROACTIVELY extended copyright terms 19 years, so that >>> the material from 1923 has never entered the public domain. Now, >>> 19 years later, at the urging of the Walt Disney Company, the >>> Gershwin heirs, and many others concerned with their rights to >>> keep exclusive ownership of intellectual property, Congress has >>> RETROACTIVELY extended copyright terms another 20 years, to 95 >>> years. >>> >>> This means that materials written in 1923, which would have >>> entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 1999, will now enter the >>> public domain on Jan 1, 2019. Materials written in 1924 will now >>> enter the public domain on Jan. 1, 2020. And that, sir, is only >>> if Congress does not retroactively extend the term a third time. >>> >>> What impact does this have on genealogists? We all want >>> information. In this day and age, information usually is found >>> online or on CD-ROM disks. Yet the people who produce those online >>> databases and CD-ROM disks are now prohibited from reproducing >>> materials printed after 1922. >>> >>> Newspapers after 1922 (obituaries, especially) will now be in >>> copyright for another 20 years. You'll need to wait 20 more years >>> before they can be transcribed and put online for free. Old >>> genealogies, which might be useful if reprinted, cannot be freely >>> reprinted or placed online for an additional 20 years. Historical >>> materials cannot be reprinted or placed online for an additional >>> 20 years. Likewise, obscure works whose copyright status is >>> uncertain or where the heirs cannot be tracked down, cannot be >>> placed online for an additional 20 years. >>> >>> For a much more detailed description of the impact, look at: >>> http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala/ >>> >>> My thanks to Richard J. Yanco for his update on the issue. He was >>> quite helpful in describing the legal language of the bill to me. >>> If you would like to contact Richard, he is at: >>> rjyanco@unix.amherst.edu >>> >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>> >>> If you want to see the current issue as well as back issues of the >>> newsletter, look on the World Wide Web at: >>> >>> http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/index.htm >>> >>> Please feel free to copy this subscription information and pass it >>> on to anyone else who you think might be interested in obtaining a >>> free subscription. >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------- >>> List problems? >>> Check >>> your WELCOME message FIRST >>> http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/problems.htm SECOND >>> then contact stephenL@indiana.edu >> > > > > > > > >--part0_911179625_boundary-- > > >==== VAPATRIC Mailing List ==== >Patrick County, Virginia Home Page >http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric/ >