Virginia -
My personal feeling (and what I have done, whether it is right or not I
guess) is that the new CC should assume the copyright in the copyright
statement. If you have to catalog past CCs in that, it would only confuse
the issue (and the visitors to the site). Obviously data needs to be
handled differently, and is probably properly handled with a copyright
statement attributed to the contributor themselves (which is what I've also
done unless the contributor is unknown; then I feel it falls under the onus
of the general copyright statement of the CC).
Does that make any sense at all? :-)
Mary Kathryn Kozy
Mitchell Co., GA CC
At 09:07 AM 3/27/2004 -0600, you wrote:
In one of the responses from a CC, there was a question about the use
of
the "copyright" on the County Pages.
I"m not sure this has ever really been defined, and perhaps we could get
some feedback here.
The question raised was if a CC gives the page to another CC, is it proper
for the copyright for those previous years to be "assumed" by the new CC.
Or would it be better to retain the CC's name and copyright for those
earlier years.
"Copyright 1996-2001 by Jane Jones
Copyright 2001-2004 by Jerry Smith
Do you think this would be a better way to state this? It would then give
a record of the county from it's origin to the present day
Coordinator. OR does it really matter?
Additionally back in 2002.... CAT has some suggestions...in which she felt
the content belonged to USGenWeb but the design should be the CCs --- and
that new CCs should not assume the "graphics" without proper permission
from the creator of the graphics themselved.
This resulted in some unresolved dialogue about who does own the content,
and if the CC must "leave" the work that they did themselves. That is an
issue in itself--and not what is meant here!
I wanted to clarify that the "copyright notice" in the "page
requirements"
is not about who owns the content of the page, but just the statement of
the "copyright".
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