Julie,
From what I have read I am assuming that the original
barbour Collection published by Lucius Barbour would be ok to copy the
information from, but the more recent series published by Lorriane Cook
White, would not be - even though it would contain the same information?
Coypright is becoming a very complex issue with the advent of the internet.
Each country has it's own version of copyright and no standard exists.
However:
1) merely copying someones published research IS an infringement on
copyright if:
a) The published work was issued within prescribed copyright limitation for
the country's law you are republishing from. (ie within 75 years in Canada)
2) Fair Useage:
If you can put forward and argument for disputing or augmenting a published
work (not commerical) then this could fall under the terms of "Fair
usage". Most public records and genealogy could be argued to fall in this
category. University research exists under this situtation.
3) To be safe, quote your references in either case. In the case of
Internet found info, the convention is evolving of quoting the web
URL/date/and web content creator (ie author).
A simplistic account to be sure.
Murray