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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