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Copyright and Rootschat Websites
« on: Tuesday 06 November 07 21:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Can anyone let me know what I am or am not allowed to put on my Rootschat site? I know that low-res census excerpts are allowed on some areas of the forums, for help deciphering handwriting, etc. but what about on our own websites? For example, can I put extracts from parish registers that I've photocopied, as long as I acknowledge the records office where I obtained them? Or is anything like that out-of-bounds  Huh

Thanks!

Rich
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Re: Copyright and Rootschat Websites
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 06 November 07 22:32 GMT (UK) »
The agreement is here:

http://www.rootschat.net/agreement.html

You are responsible (and so liable) for the contents of your webspace, and you must ensure that whatever you put on your personal webspace complies with the law.
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Re: Copyright and Rootschat Websites
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 06 November 07 23:16 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the link.

From what I can gather the 'artwork' of, for example, a census page, is copyrighted but the information isn't, and so if the information is extracted by a transcriber and then that transcription is put, for example, on a webpage it becomes the transcriber's 'artwork' and therefore, although the information is public domain, the copyright of the actual transcription belongs to the transcriber.

At least I know what I can and can't do...  Wink
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India: Padam
Gloucestershire: Cripps, Morse, Heaven, Timbrell, Draper
Hampshire: Rolfe, Voller, Carter, Withers, Lovelock
Sussex: Wenham, Rogers, Wrenn
Derbyshire: Lacey, Thompson
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