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When you are in Ancestry - looking at a census image - there is an option to send the page to a friend. So what's that about then?

Admittedly it only lets you send 5 or 6 pages to the same e-mail address but it lets you send them!!

I think there's something about copyright laws where you can copy a percentage of the work - like a few quotes from a book - without have to apply for permission. It's only if you want to use a larger percentage that you begin to infringe the copyright laws.

So the odd look up here and there is probably not an issue but regular lookups would be?

Jill

I do agree with David.I have had 2 threads deleted and after my 1st was deleted Genes said to me to start another 1!If i had been doing anything awful they wouldn't have said that surely?I think as David said they are just covering themselves.

The main point of these boards is to do lookups for people whether it is on a lookup thread or just helping individuals.They know we are copying and pasting,typing the info would take ages!If they had a problem with this they would be punishing people who do this.

Also think Ancestry needs to get on with sorting the tech problems out with the site at the moment rather than worrying about copying and pasting!!


***Michelle***

Wikipedia give a fair description of the copyright law and can be found at:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

I think what David is saying is correct, GR know that the look ups and help given on here is the mainstay of this site - it would be dead without it. (Check out michelle's post above - GR delete a look up thread but tell her its ok to start another)

However they are obviously getting a bit nervous about being held to task by companies such as ancestry and are covering their own butts.

Personally I do feel the blatant "look up" threads really are a bit OTT, Im am always amazed ancestry hasnt come down on GR like a ton of hot bricks.

On rather more sophisticated forums like, for example, RootsChat and FTF, it is possible to include copyright information in your signature - not here, though.

This does seem to be an attempt at 'cover all' wording. In one of the paragraphs, it makes mention of not linking to third party sites. The context is in terms of spamming or advertising but, technically by the nature of the wording, it could also apply to me suggesting researchers look at a particular site for specialist information - incidentally, not supplied on this site or Ancestry - such as TNA or Cyndislist.

Moderation of the boards would, of course, prevent any breaches before they happened and remove these worries and doubts.

If you read through from the begining of this thread you will see it seems to be infringment of copyright which is the problem-eg copy and paste from Ancestry or such like.which are subscription sites.

I do not think there is a problem with refering people to sites