In a message dated 5/11/99 5:57:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< Hi, This needs to stop. Was the information copyrighted? If not don't call 
it 
 theft. I copy information from other people and also post information for 
 others to use freely. I love genealogy and hate to see adults act like this. 
 I appreciate all the help I have gotten and love helping others. If you 
don't 
 want your info used don't post it. Keep it to yourself and let you and your 
 ancestors be forgotten. If you post information to help others who cares who 
 uses it. So please take the argument off this list and email privately. 
 Thanks,Pat
  >>

I believe this should be settled within the list.     Small excerpts from 
books can be posted with notation of the source.      Information you put in 
your personal files is ok - that is research - but you may not publish that 
information if it contains full quotations from another's work.    Web pages 
are printed material like books.  Putting something out on the internet is 
like publishing.   Copyright rules apply.   Bottom line - if you copied 
original records from the microfilm - you can post without source credit.   
If you didn't copy it from the microfilm - somebody else did and the credit 
and copyright is theirs - and their choice to waive or not.   Cynthia 
expressly reserved copyright.   The law was broken.   Allowing blantant 
disregard for the law should shame everyone on this list.

leigh

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