Thanks, Marilyn. Yes, I understand what you say. It was "tongue in
cheek" when I said I was in trouble if copying published obits was an
infringement - - that was just absurd, I thought.
It's good that you posted those explanations to the list.
Martha
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From: <MMGir(a)aol.com>
To: <caldwell(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [CALDWELL] Administrator: Why the round-about"methodofgettingto
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Martha,
The obituaries are posted for your use and by no means are you in
trouble.
I transcribe the obits for my home county in Alabama. Randolph
Publishing
retains the copyright but has given permission for the USGenWeb Project
Archives to store the files permanently for free access. I am only the
contributor.
Now the cemetery listings are different, I could not post cemetery
listings
already done by someone else, this would be an infringment on their
copyright. So in order to get the listings posted, I spent months
walking the
cemeteries and transcribing them. These are contributed and copyrighted
by "me".
This protects them 'as a whole' from being picked up and used for profit.
Still, they are there for your use in finding your ancestors.
OK?
Marilyn
Elmira, NY
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In a message dated 4/28/2008 10:07:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
mplamkin(a)insightbb.com writes:
Jane:
It was not I who brought up the copyright question, but I believe it was
Peter McCrae - - pmccrae(a)googlemail.com - - who answered my original
query
directed to the Administrator. Our Administrator has not replied to our
concerns yet, and I do not know who the administrator of this list is.
Hopefully they will pick up this thread of concerns soon and present some
answers for us.
Peter seemed to think that one reason for the change in format was due to
copyright protection somehow. I questioned that (see previous posts).
I
am not a copyright expert by any means, but it did not make sense to me
that
an obit which was published in a public newspaper would be protected by
copyright! If anyone can prove it to me, I will be happy to know, as I
will be in a "heap of trouble" since I have copied many obits in
connection
with my genealogy research!
Martha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Foley" <mjfent(a)bellsouth.net>
>I don't know anything about copyrights either but according to
"MARTHA"
> below she seems to know. Let's ask her!
>
> Jane Foley
> NC
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