Here is a post from Dr. Brian at RootsWeb, concerning RootsWeb's position on "Copyright" material. Please READ and HEED. **********(Start of Brian's Post)********** Hi everyone - I'm sorry to have to do this, but I'm starting to lose a day a week or more to this problem and it's gotta stop. Remember, RootsWeb only has three formal policies but the *first* among them is "No copyrighted material (save with permission or as allowed by Fair Use)". Also remember that for the purpose of policy, RootsWeb takes a conservative view of intellectual property rights. We don't have much use for the "facts can't be copyrighted" truism, because almost everyone who uses that expression doesn't understand what it does and doesn't mean. And even when some material can be legally copied, it may still be morally wrong or invite public relations problems to do so. In particular, RootsWeb generally believes that *anything* published in book form within the last 75 years should not be copied and appear on our servers without the permission of the author or the copyright holder. That *specifically* applies to cemetery transcriptions: if you didn't walk the cemetery yourself and you don't have explicit permission from the person who did, that material should NOT be served from RootsWeb. It's fine for folks to disagree with our policies, but if you do disagree please have the courtesy of using other servers to host material that might violate RootsWeb's policies. If you insist on serving that material from RootsWeb, you're cheating *everyone* else by diverting Karen and me into dealing with legal problems when we should be creating accounts and mailing lists for the community. Thanks for your help with this, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 [email protected] ==== WILHITE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from WILHITE, send an e-mail message to: [email protected] (for individual messages) [email protected] (for Digest mode) Subject: unsubscribe In the body include only one word: unsubscribe (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command)