In a message dated 06/22/1999 9:13:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mmccombs(a)interlog.com writes:
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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.
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Note:
there was a situation on the net where someone posted the cemetery records of
a particular county and was STRONGLY threatened with copyright infringement -
apparently an individual had 'researched' the cemetery records and printed
them in book form and her husband was also an attorney - oh well! Records
were withdrawn from the net.
Agreed, we cannot 'copy' the published work that is under copyright,
however.........Barbour is not presently owned by anyone, nor is Hale. Can
we assume that the cemetery records produced by the DAR are also out of
copyright - assuming the date is old enuf? Or, is this going to be a matter
of who gets there first and 'writes' the 'new' book??????
wondering, sm in
windsor, ct