Subject: Re: South Carolina Volunteers, 26th Regiment, Company H From: Cynthia Parker Date: April 17, 1999 Steve, Excuse me, but you fail to realize that you copied my transcription of old data, and my transcription is copyrightable. I am very much involved with the USGenWeb project and am quite aware of what is copyrightable and what is not. The data at the archives is waiting there for you to go and make your own transcription. It's public domain, but my transcription is not public domain. My transcription is copyrighted. It is my work. I am working on a book with old newspaper transcriptions. When I publish it, don't you think that it's copyrightable. It most certainly is. I have taken technology courses via the college of library science at USC. I have learned quite a bit in those courses. If someone puts up a webpage and places a copyright on the page, it's copyrighted. No one else has the right, morally or legally, to make a copy of it, in any way, shape, or form. This issue was at one time a hot topic on the USGenWeb all list. What you have done is against Rootsweb's policy. It is also immoral. I promise you that if you copy and publish any of my work across your list again, I will contact Rootsweb. I have already consulted the SCGenWeb State Coordinator about this. (As you may know I am assistant coordinator for SCGenWeb.) If anymore data is harvested from an SCGenWeb page and sent out across the list, which resides on Rootsweb, we will both contact them. They are adamant that copyrights be honored. Read the blurbs on the data in the South Carolina Archives on Rootsweb. The info in copyrighted to the transcriber. The info that you sent to Sumter has your name on it and a copyright blurb giving you credit. If you don't choose to believe what I am telling you, then contact Brian at Rootsweb and see how he feels about you harvesting info and sending it out across a list that is on the Rootsweb server. It is not to be done. By the way, I have noticed before info that you have cut and pasted from some of my pages, word for word, such as from the Clarendon Archives page and placed on your web page. That is a no no also. I received over a hundred e-mails, privately about my message to you. All were in favor of what I had said. People don't like seeing you harvesting other people's hard work and sending it out across the list. The url is what is needed and a bit about what's on the page. Cynthia R. Parker SCGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |