Um while I may be new here. Which I really am. Don't the words permanent use of
- imply loss of copyright?
"Section 3. In The USGenWeb Project, copyright to data contributed to any
special projects resides with the contributor, who agrees that The USGenWeb
Project, as a not-for-profit group, has permanent use of the data.
and don't the words until such time imply not until?
The permanent use agreement is conditional upon the non-profit nature
of The USGenWeb Project and will become null and void if The USGenWeb Project
should ever cease to be non-profit.
Seems to me there is a gray area here of this word copyright. While I may
understand it means i own it. The by - laws in there own words do say GenWeb
can continue to use it well after I've said stop. Thereby I do in fact lose
ownershipof what I believe is mine. If this not what GenWeb is trying to say
then it needs to be reworded and redefined. Honestly, if I read this and was
contributing things which were mine - I would not contribute. The purpose of
copyrighting something is so one can claim is as theirs and theirs alone. this
null and voids that.
Barbara Lavin
Linda Lewis wrote:
>The proposed by-laws say that individuals who donate material to
the
>project essentially lose their copyright interest. That is a flagrant slap
>in the face to our hardworking volunteers and data transcribers.
WHERE does it say that?? It says just the opposite. From the beginning,
the USGenWeb project has said that copyrights remain with the submitter,
and it still does.
Linda