And if we do, what happens to the information that we as volunteers have submitted? Does it become the property of someone else to market? A friend sent this on to me, and it really has us all concerned. Read below~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>future structure of USGW and the proposed hosting agreement now under discussion,... > > >I am glad you noticed that. I noticed it too. My guess is that the AB >is discussing a "permanent" hosting agreement with RW/Ancestry >identical to what the (owner of the Archives) made with RW >several years back. That would in effect make RW/Ancestry own the >USGenWeb Project, and they could regulate the org as well. All the >volunteers would be providing free labor, so that RW/Ancestry could >continue to profit forever and ever from volunteers who have been >indoctrinated to believe that no one is making money off our labor. <snip> >We've addressed this issue before and many have tried to pass it off as semantics, but the fact is as a legal entity, The USGenWeb Project does not exist. In our 7 years now >of building these sites on line and everything else we've done, we've never attained a >legal status as an entity that may "hold property'" and transact business. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Goodness knows I believe in what your are saying... Washington-L is primarily a genealogy history list with no affliations with USGenWeb... Perhaps this discussion would be better served by taking it to NW/plains list or the wagen list... both of them subcribed to by CC's. and personally... if you forward material to a list I like to know from whom the material originated. Darilee ... "A. Shatt" <[email protected]> wrote: And if we do, what happens to the information that we as volunteers have submitted? Does it become the property of someone else to market? A friend sent this on to me, and it really has us all concerned. Read below~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>future structure of USGW and the proposed hosting agreement now under discussion,... > > >I am glad you noticed that. I noticed it too. My guess is that the AB >is discussing a "permanent" hosting agreement with RW/Ancestry >identical to what the (owner of the Archives) made with RW >several years back. That would in effect make RW/Ancestry own the >USGenWeb Project, and they could regulate the org as well. All the >volunteers would be providing free labor, so that RW/Ancestry could >continue to profit forever and ever from volunteers who have been >indoctrinated to believe that no one is making money off our labor. >We've addressed this issue before and many have tried to pass it off as semantics, but the fact is as a legal entity, The USGenWeb Project does not exist. In our 7 years now >of building these sites on line and everything else we've done, we've never attained a >legal status as an entity that may "hold property'" and transact business. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington