I made a request to my Indiana CCs to donate their work to INGenWeb and almost everyone
that is just fine with them. I never remove anything from my sites.
I did have one CC who wanted to NOT USE material that was on the site. I require that
anyone adopting a county cannot remove prior material placed on the site. I was shocked
when his comment was that he should get to decide what stayed in the site. When material
is there from someone else, I don't feel we have the right to remove their donations
unless the donor requests it be removed. Needless to say, he gave the county up. I
don't mind if someone wants to reformat the info, but removing previously added
material is a no-no to me.
Denise Wells
On Nov 27, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Karen De Groote
<iagenieme(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Denise, I have but it's been years ago. The details of which are very dim these days.
I did not know the copyright was any type of requirement. I copyright my counties for
the state projects. If there is no copyright notice many people think it is a free for
all to copy. With a copyright notice it tends to make them ask. One aspect of copyright
infringement that we will never be able to use is the point about causing the copyright
holder to lose money. We are a volunteer organization and never will suffer a monetary
loss because of copyright but that doesn't make it right for someone to take your
work.
In another project we go one step further and make wills about our county sites, namely
if you leave, you don't strip the site. There are those in this project that feel
their county sites are their personal property and frankly that is just selfish. We are
volunteering to grow this project, not to make our personal mark on the genealogy world.
I don't know why anyone would volunteer to be a CC if they don't have the state
project in mind when adopting a county.
Karen
Becker, Todd and Stearns
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Denise Wells via <mngen(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
> >From my point of view, yes. That is why I usually suggest a last updated date.
By the way, has anyone ever heard of a copyright suit for a genealogy website? I
haven't.
>
> Denise Wells
>
>
>
> > On Nov 27, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Timothy Stowell via <mngen(a)rootsweb.com>
wrote:
> >
> > So basically it is worthless.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Laverne H. Tornow via
<mngen(a)rootsweb.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> This is all I have to say about this issue. We are not copyrighting a
> >> design or document, we are copyrighting a COMPILATION, much as a
> >> newspaper or magazine. It is a copyright on the compilation of the data
> >> contained on the sites not an individual page or work.
> >
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