Volunteering to put records on line
Hall...@aol.com
GENMSC-D...@rootsweb.com writes:
<< you could find yourself in legal trouble
if you breach someone else's copyright, especially if it's a government
department :-)
>>
Yes, but Rootsweb doesn't choose those things which are under copyright, or
otherwise forbidden. I am sure the records you have volunteered to put on
line were all OK...
Jan Hall
Dennis P. Harris
GENMSC-D...@rootsweb.com writes:
<< you could find yourself in legal trouble
if you breach someone else's copyright, especially if it's a
government
department :-)
uhhh... government documents are almost always in the public
domain. most have never been copyrighted, and can be reproduced
at will.
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Researching GRIFFITH (IL,PA,Wales),HARRIS,NEHER(MO,TN,VA),
NORDLING/NORDLINGER(IL,Alsace),WILLIAMSON(WI),WILL(PA),
WILLITS/WILLETS,WHITSON,JACKSON,POWELL,UNDERHILL(LI-NY).
Dennis P. Harris NO_SPAM_F...@ak.net
Webmaster, Juneau GenWeb http://www.usgennet.org/~akjuneau
Lesley Robertson
Dennis P. Harris <NO_SPAM_T...@gci.net> wrote in message
news:ad4ofs0aj7228r6sn...@4ax.com...
> In a message dated 4/17/2000 8:51:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> GENMSC-D...@rootsweb.com writes:
>
> << you could find yourself in legal trouble
> if you breach someone else's copyright, especially if it's a
> government
> department :-)
>
> uhhh... government documents are almost always in the public
> domain. most have never been copyrighted, and can be reproduced
> at will.
>
It doesn't pay to assume that everything worldwide is the same as in the
USA. Most British records are Crown-copyright (and no, that doesn't mean the
Queen, it means the government). I don't know about other countries.
Lesley Robertson
Merritt Mullen
> In a message dated 4/17/2000 8:51:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> GENMSC-D...@rootsweb.com writes:
>
> << you could find yourself in legal trouble
> if you breach someone else's copyright, especially if it's a
> government
> department :-)
>
> uhhh... government documents are almost always in the public
> domain. most have never been copyrighted, and can be reproduced
> at will.
That is true in the USA, but not true in many (most?) other countries. For
example, I believe in the UK, government documents are copyrighted and you
must have permission from the government to reproduce them.
Merritt