Ron: I completely agree with you. I've found photos that I posted on an older website of mine in people's personal pages within Ancestry.com without credit as to where it came from. These were old photos in my personal collection that I'm certain others didn't have especially since they depicted different lines.
That's a huge problem on the internet where young "adults" who grew up in the technology age seem to think that anything on the internet is free for the taking. I also use something similar to the UK Creative Commons License, but would much prefer a real copyright. However, that doesn't seem to stop the internet thieves these days. I have been a victim of genealogy data and identity theft in ways where profit was the motive so I no longer post my information freely. I also agree with others that posting all your data from Legacy to FB or other social websites is a recipe for disaster especially if it includes living people. You would need their permission first prior to posting otherwise there could be identity theft issues. I ask permission first before I even post living person information to a privatized site like Ancestry.com because they and other genealogy sites do backups and even if you delete your site, they still have your data. I found this out after Ancestry bought out Rootsweb's and data that I deleted years before ended up on Ancestry.com after the buyout. So private isn't always private--not these days anyway. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Facebook & Images Tom, Since you can't link the photos to Legacy, exactly what are you thinking of doing, eg. copying the photos and putting them into Legacy? You clearly do not own these photographs, so for the moment forget ethics, the copyright for those pictures belong to the person who took them, or to whom that person assigned the copyright. You do intend to publish, you say "...to include it all in a book of descendants to be handed out at the next family reunion", that is publishing, even if you do not charge. If I have misunderstood, then please excuse me, but if anybody did that with my photos, without my express consent, I would hit the roof. When I allow use of my photos, I do so only on the condition that my copyright is explicitly stated. My website operates under the Creative Commons License, which subject to certain conditions, allows free use for the reproduction and distribution of my information, but I have specifically exempted my photos and reserved their copyright. As I understand the Facebook conditions, in loose terms, when uploading a photo onto Facebook you give Facebook a free license to use that photo for any of their activities, but nobody else. Ron Ferguson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
