I have noticed that many of my volunteer contributors also post the same
information to others sites such as the GAGenWeb County, GAGenWeb Archives,
FindAGrave, AHGP, and some even on
Ancestor.com. I have no problem with
them posting the info since they were the ones that did the research or
whatever. What gets me upset is when a "pay-to-see" site takes the info and
puts it on their site without asking the contributor for permission. I have
seen a lot of my personal research on some of the sites and I know I did not
submit it to them or give them permission to use it. Have even seen my
research submitted by others and they forgot to correct some of my typos, so
I know they had to copy and paste the info without fulling reading it.
Don't get me wrong, I do not care if a contributor submits the same info to
every genealogy web site on the internet. I just don't want them taking my
research and adding their name and submitting to a "pay-to-see" web site.
Doris Robbins
Butts & Floyd Counties
----- Original Message -----
From: "Holly Blomberg" <holly.blomberg(a)gmail.com>
To: <gagen(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [GAGEN] Problem getting stuff posted to websites
That's an interesting point Deborah. I'm sure most of you
have had the
experience looking around the web and seeing that phenomenon--where a
website simply copies information from another site and posts it as its
own
without attribution on credit to the original. That very problem caused me
to part ways with the "Genealogy Trails" group--I was going to do the
Walton
County site for them but the head of that project had a very particular
idea
about when links could and could not lead to other sites and what
information could be posted on the Genealogy Trails sites. As I am a
lawyer
(not practicing because of disability) I tried in a nice way to discuss
copyright law and her group's practices (including putting their own
copyright label on information that had been lifted from other sites). I
didn't meet with much success.
I don't know what could be done to prevent random information theft apart
from either 1) enforcing copyright violations (would be quite difficult in
our format--all volunteer organization and such), or 2) restricting access
to the sites via password protection and screening "members." The second
option would be quite difficult as well.
What about conducting routine scans of the Internet using keywords that
are
relevant to our sites--then reviewing the search engine results. If in
those
results we see material that has been stolen, why not contact the site
owner
with a "cease and desist" message? We could come up with a form letter for
this purpose that would make things easier.
Just my two cents.
Holly Blomberg
USGenWeb/GAGenWeb County Coordinator
Walton County Georgia
http://www.thegagenweb.com/gawalton/
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Deborah Byrd
<deborahbryd(a)bellsouth.net>wrote:
> I have been talking to some of my listers about getting things posted the
> the
> county websites. She is very tight with the main group of researcher for
> that
> area here is what she says "Not to many posting on web anymore. They say
> their
> information is stolen and they have to pay when they want anything."
> Just
> thought that I would pass that on to all you all incase you are running
> into
> some of the same things.
>
> Also if any are in the Slyvaina area on Oct 8 and 9th There is a
> genealogy
> workshop sponsered by Soctty Scott, Carole Farr Drexel and John Robert
> Peavy,.See trivia of Screven Co/Sylvania on fb for more details.
>
> I just found out it today and thought to pass it along
>
> Deborah Byrd,
> CC Burke and Screven County
>
>
>
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