If you scroll up a bit you will also see this under what is not covered by
copyright
Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and
containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height
and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from
public documents or other common sources)
As a website developer, if your work consists of information that is common
property such as birth death and marriage dates, then it is not
copyrightable.
If however there are personal histories and stories and the like that are
included in that completed website, the contents that are written by you
personally can have your claim of copyright.
Works written by others fall under their copyright.
No person has the right to claim copyright on another persons works.
Copyright however is not the issue of this bylaw revision.
What is being stated is that the contents submitted to the website stay with
the website.
In none of that wording does it state that the contents stay and USGW is
claiming copyright.
Ellen-
From: "Paula Vaughan" <pajolova(a)hotmail.com>
Reply-To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [WIGEN-L] Copyright
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:08:31 -0500
This is a page on the US Copyright site and it is pretty clear and
understandable.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#hsc
When I had any question about putting something on the website and
copyright I contacted the US Copyright office and they were very helpful.
Paula
WaupacaCC
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