One cannot condone copying another's research, but
some degree of blame must be placed on researchers
themselves, when they:
-- Place their databases online, and allow anyone to
download GEDs from it
-- Include their research notes online
-- Anything you send to someone will probably be sent
to someone else, who probably then put it online.
Anything you place online you should be assured will
be copied.
On the other hand, I am not advocating being stingy
with one's data. I have 11 databases online, and
their presence there helps expand my opportunity to
work with other researchers. One must just understand
the impact of making data available to the public.
-- Randy Jones
--- qvarizona <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Your timing for this subject is excellent. It's
> unfortunate that the more people involved with
> genealogy
> online, the more common it is to run into wannabe
> genealogists who either find it necessary to cheat
> --I
> suspect, don't know how to research-- are simply
> lazy, or
> are so arrogant they assume anything published is
> theirs.
>
> The best example I've run into lately of a
> "successful"
> copy-copy-wannabe has to do with my Virginia
> Grandmother.
> While checking out the website of a well-known
> genealogist,
> I came across some familiar words:
>
> "The following data is based in part on the
> genealogy notes
> of my grandmother, Julia Humes Bilyeu. "
>
> Yep, you guessed it. That's MY grandmother, and her
> only
> other grandchildren are not into genealogy. It is
> interesting that the webmaster of the site has a
> copyright
> statement prominently displayed; one which does not
> include
> the invitation for others to freely use the material
> for
> family research that many of us include on our own
> pages.
>
> What can I do about it? Laugh . . . and never
> again refer
> anyone to that researcher.
>
>
> Joanne
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Drake" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:23 AM
> Subject: [VA-ROOTS] using others' materials
>
>
> I have been asked many times generally about what
> writings
> of others it is OK for you to use. The question is
> a
> tedious one at best, however this site does an
> adequate job
> of explaining, and any of you who are writing should
> read
> it. My articles in Heritage Quest, in NGS
> Newsletter, and
> the explanations in my books also will assist.
>
> So, take a look at this, all the while remembering
> that
> there are NO prohibitions - no "thou shalt nots" -
> and no
> penalties set forth in the Fair Use statute, and the
> "illegality" of any "use" - and the damages
> suffered, if
> any - are questions to be determined by a court in
> proper
> session having to do with the accusation of unfair
> or
> improper use. Paul
>
> http://www.ipwatchdog.com/copyright.html
>
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