From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 19 15:00:24 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 k6JL0Ojb022513; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:00:24 -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 k6JL06wj011093 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:00:06 -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 k6JIM2FI011804 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:22:02 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6JIM2TH011803 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:22:02 -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 k6JHA8FI011595 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:10:08 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6JJm1Xw030857 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:48:01 -0600 X-Envelope-From: harrison28@gmail.com Wed Jul 19 13:48:01 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 k6JJm1jb030848 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:48:01 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6JJltpj021957 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:47:56 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so494701uge for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:47:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RHUvkhGVHICL5s4o836x/bYKLgVPa5qntSdlhuDtg0XMRMXORvrM4FLQPqNdgZFLBJJ5s2LmGqsuwJLXfuLjALrq80j+xmuav9AeraB2WNx/Gb9NmiaOEaoCP+TrkXv/8ZsaDwTCmRllN6i4y/J1GA9a6hj/GJZ8kX/DQYzkF1s= Received: by 10.66.220.17 with SMTP id s17mr1104975ugg; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.25.1 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <95b5b6b90607191247l484d2b3x12556c23cdce165a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:47:51 -0500 From: "Kathie Harrison" To: AMADAN1960@aol.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Ancestry World Tree Project Surprise Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <04be01c6ab5e$2f427d80$f5af4b0c@host> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <415.62aa42d.31ef32f8@aol.com> <04be01c6ab5e$2f427d80$f5af4b0c@host> X-Spam-Score: 1.934 (*) BAYES_00,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,RCVD_BY_IP,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 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 Oh? So from your limited research you can advise us on copyright law? You CAN'T COPYRIGHT facts. You can only copyright original work which may include the DATA but PUBLIC data is just that. Public information is NOT COPYRIGHTABLE. See Mike Goad's web site: http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/index.html http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/copyright_articles.htm > ----- 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 > > -- Kathie Harrison Family Trees Grow with Love Ancestral Whispers http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/