As long as you don't create a website with your information. If you do, then I would check with FAG, the contributors of the data and of the photos (often different).
FAG is specific in requiring that the only photos posted be taken by the poster, but many photos on there have come from the internet. Some may be in the public domain, but, for a fact, not all of them are. CE > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] obituary on website as source > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 19:23:19 +0000 > > On 19/12/2015 18:35, I Macaulay wrote: > > You will be making your data illegal by copying the page. There are > > places in Legacy for everything that FAG has on its page. > > I dp have some understanding of copyright and I rarely, if ever, > contravene it, but I believe that information that is posted to sites > like FAG is put there so that other people can make use of it. I am not > copying the web page design, layout, etc, only the information that is > on it. The information I am recording includes the names of the website > creator and the people who provided the data. I am not using it for > commercial purposes, but solely for personal family history research. > > It even says in Legacy, on the Source Details Text tab "Copy of the > actual Source Text." > > I don't think I'm in any danger of being sued. > > -- > Jenny M Benson 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
