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From: "Alan Nelson" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] Publishing the Essepubs site
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:57:30 +0100
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If this is so why are cds produced by local societies lists copyrighted
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From: "Firebird" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Ess] Publishing the Essepubs site


> La Greenall wrote:
>
>> My feelings on this are that, since the original registers will be
>> copyright-free, the information in them is also copyright-free.
>
> Surprisingly, the registers are *not* copyright free.
>
> You cannot copyright facts, so the information in the registers being
> facts cannot be copyrighted. It is the *format* which is copyright
> and any transcription made of the registers has to have permission
> beforehand: although, to be fair, this is rarely refused.
>
> Copyright in the transcription then belongs to the person who made it.
> If the transcription is to be published, on a website book or olther
> format, most record offices will agree subject to certain criteria.
>
> The record office I have dealt with insists the information is made
> available freely and free of charge. It must carry a note that the
> transcription is by permission of the <county> record office and that
> since it is a transcription and may contain errors, the originals
> should be consulted. They also ask for a copy of the transcription.
>
> If any images of the registers are to be used, additional permission
> needs to be obtain and notated appropriately. If the transcription
> and/or images are to be used in a book that will be sold, additional
> permission (and often a fee) has to be negotiated.
>
> There isn't usually a problem so long as permission is sought in the
> first place.
>
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