From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 19 13:30:04 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6JJU4jb024956; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:30:04 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6JJU0Mv006695 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:30:00 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6JGpvFI011516 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:51:57 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6JGpvep011515 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:51:57 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6JFVUFI011327 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:31:30 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6JI9NTa007844 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:09:23 -0600 X-Envelope-From: sue.nyc@att.net Wed Jul 19 12:09:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6JI9Njb007835 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:09:23 -0600 Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6JI9JYM005147 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:09:20 -0600 Received: from host (245.new-york-32rh16rt.ny.dial-access.att.net[12.75.175.245]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with SMTP id <200607191809151130057nrue>; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:09:15 +0000 Message-ID: <04be01c6ab5e$2f427d80$f5af4b0c@host> From: "SueNY" To: References: <415.62aa42d.31ef32f8@aol.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Ancestry World Tree Project Surprise Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:07:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Whoever that attorney is, he needs to go back to law school. A lawsuit against Ancestry would be thrown out of court because FACTS (birth dates, marriage dates, etc) can not be copyrighted. Now if they had taken someone's personal family stories, like for instance the journal entries of an ancestor, a biography, etc, then that would be considered copyright infringement.. However, if you read all the fine print on Ancestry, FTM, etc, I am very sure they have some sort of disclaimer to protect themselves. And I agree with the person who said that if you didn't submit your info, someone you shared it with most likely did so. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:02 AM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Ancestry World Tree Project Surprise > Pat, > > I did a limited amount of research through an attorney, and was told that, If > you wrote the information, and can prove it is a copy of your original > information, then they have stolen your copyright. If that is the case, then > Ancestry.com could potentially be sued for printing information they have no > copyright too. > > Copyrights do not neccessarily have to be sent to a copyright office to be a > copyright. > > > Jane