What to do with unwanted Data cd's?

[kooky]

'Blue Peter' are collecting unwanted CDs for their Christmas appeal, to help Barnados.
Lloyds TSB bank have a collection box for them.

Just a thought!

Kooky

[Mum44]

My Mum - who was a keen gardener - used to thread old data discs on long bits of rope or wire and string them across the vegetable patch - as good as any scare-crow, she used to say!

[ridban]

I just can't see that this is enforceable. If you buy a book, you are legally entitled to sell it second hand, aren't you? You can't copy it and sell copies, but you can sell the original book, as far as I know. You can also quote passages from that book and make reference to parts of it in other publications providing you acknowledge the copyright of the original.

Also, doesn't copyright last for a finite period? Therefore, by definition, how can you copyright census material, which has to be over 100  years old before it's released?

Any copyright lawyers able to explain this?

I'd love to know.

Linda

[Mum44]

I think this might hinge on the user agreement thing which comes with every data disc or application, doesn't it? 

When you buy a book, they don't ask you to sign any agreement.

[trish251]

I wonder if the ones given away free with family history mags are covered by any spurious rule too.  I have loads of them, I don't want them but don't want to throw them away eithe.

Liz

I could be wrong but my understanding here is - they can't be sold separately from the mag - found this in the small print when I had thrown the mags in the recycle and wondered if I could sell the CDs   

Trish

[Dancing Master]

The Data CD's are covered by copyright law and they are sold on the understandng they are for the use of one person only  (the purchaser) and it is illegal for them to use for lookups and copying the data for anyone.  It states it quite clearly in the paperwork that acommpanies the data disks.

Rightly or wrongly when you purchase the product and USE  it even though you have read the small print you cannot use it for lookups.

Its the same in libraries and FHS's  you cannot copy whole documents,  nor can you use them to get  monetary gain.    The Cheshire Records Office all documents they copy for you is stamped with the Copyright Stamp and you send back a signed authority that you will not copy or use the information for gain.

Arguably  most people do not get monetary gain from giving the free lookups  but the person who asks or receives that information does in that they have not paid for the disks nor the copying.

[Lydart]

I should think it would be OK to GIVE them to people ?   Maybe they could be given away via RootsChat ?  But maybe ask a mod first before advertising them ? 

I've given books to RC people for the cost of the stamp postage ...