If anyone wanted to take what has been transcribed and reprint it in
book form, and say they've reprinted from the original, we'd have a real
tough time proving "it ain't so." Not to mention that we have no money
to defend our case in court.
But, as Billy McNamarra of Tennessee says all the time, if it's easily
freely accessible on the Internet, they'd have a hard time convincing
the public to pay for it on their site.
Pat Sabin
Ray Brown wrote:
Whit is your thought about the Genealogical Publishing Company
copywriteing their reprint of the books. If it could stand up I don't
think that Ancestry would also be putting it on CD.
If their copyright is good, whit is to stop them from publishing for
profit any information that we put on the web without getting copyrights
on all of it first?
An attorney wheir I work says off the record that the copyright by the
genealogical publishing company can only cover their printing, not the
actual work. That is not his area of law so he won't say for sure.
Luckely a few years age I was able to get phopocopies of some town's
from the origional books, (no copyright). Whsh that I still had access
to them, I would copy all of each one.
Cheers
Ray
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