Joan and all, It is unfortunate that you were not credited with your transcription of your contribution to the Clark County Message Board. Marcia is correct that I, as WIGenWeb Project State Coordinator, do not have any direct authority, for lack of a better word, of the county mailing lists hosted by Rootsweb. They do not come under the auspies of the USGenWeb/WIGenWeb Project, even if as County Coordinator, you are the Admin. My best advice is to work with the List Administrator, and or Rootsweb to alleviate your concerns. http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html As for your concerns about the material we all place on WIGenWeb Project pages, It is the policy of the USGenWeb Project that the copyright of the material presented remains with the contributor. To illustrate this point, the following copyright statement appears on pages I put on- line. I offer it as an example of what I feel portarys a fair statement of the work we and our contributors all do. "Copyright Notice: All files on this site are copyrighted by their creator and/or contributor. They may be linked to but may not be reproduced on another site without specific permission from Tina Vickery [[email protected]] and/or their contributor. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which they are presented, the notes and comments, etc., are. It is however, quite permissable to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use ONLY." Tina

Tina, I think that Joan has tried to write to the List Administrator, with no response, I'm assuming, at this point. Actually she has made a very valid point here. We all realize that vital records and out of copyright material is free for the taking, but, in this case, it was out and out copied, down to the spelling errors. 20 people can all have the same newspaper or book, but, if you have it, type it up, and present it to a list or website, and maybe I have the same thing, it doesn't give me the right to go and copy your work. I must type it up for myself in order for it to be my work. I think that in this case, it is a very blatant copyright violation, when one has just copied the material. It does disturb me that RW would think that it was okay to do this. In other words, I could go and copy and paste the portions of the Clark County site into my browser and upload it to my site, as long as its material that is out of copyright. Actually this thought does scare me. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina S. Vickery" <[email protected]> > Joan and all, > My best advice is to work with the List Administrator, and > or Rootsweb to alleviate your concerns. > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html