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Subject: Web Archives: Lists & Copyright Considerations
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 01:11:07 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

The RHEA List Archives should soon be on the web at
http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/RHEA-L/
There is no password.
The list is still a private list, which has saved you a bit of
spam.

Keeping in mind the archives are on the web. I thought the following
would be of interest to you.

RootsWeb has worked very hard to avoid a lot of formalities.
The current AUP only has three requirements for the users
of free facilities here.

* No copyrighted material, save by permission. (Fair Use is
obviously OK, though)

*No GEDCOMs in free Web space. (Obviously doesn't apply to lists.)

*No commercail activities.

but mainly, the acceptable use policy is Just Use Common Sense.

Take the copyright issue. If folks quote short passages and acknowledge the
sources, that's almost surely Fair Use. If someone decides to post a chapter
out of a book every day until they post the whole book front to back, that's
surely not OK.

But Rootsweb doesn't expect listowners to be lawyers with expertise in
intellectual property law and to get every nit and nat we just want you to
accept responsibility for helping us avaoid the more egregious situations
where we have to waste a day or two's smoothing things over with a wronged
author. Just use common sense.

Dr. Brian Leverich-RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative

*************

A note on the above from your listowner: You have seen me post the entire
writings of Robert Perry Rhea on the Bath Co. Bicentennial Book for the Bath
Co. Historical Society. I have permission from him personally.

I also post alot of Sandi Gorin's info from her Kentucky Lists. I have a
blanket written permission from her to post.

Pat

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