Copyright Notice

All Information is free for nonprofit purposes.
All pages and photos Copyright © Tara D. Fields 1996 - 2001 unless otherwise noted.

Here are four "golden rules of copyright" from the USGenWeb Project:

1. Materials older than 1923 are absolutely safe (public domain)
2. Relaying FACTS is OK. (This does not mean copying.)
3. If the material created diminishes the market value of a person's work the copyright has been violated.
4. Getting written (not e-mail) permission from the author/publisher is the surest way to ensure that you are not violating copyright law.

Read the complete story on the web site. Go to http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.hytml

And now some great information on Copyrights:

When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write, if the copy is right. If however, your copy falls over, you must right your copy. If you write religious services you write rite, and have the right to copyright the rite you write.

Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right to copyright the right copy they write. A right wing cleric would write right rite, and has the right to copyright the right rite he has the right to write. His editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the copyright can be right.

Should Thom Wright decide to write right rite, then Wright would write right rite, which Wright has the right to copyright. Duplicating that rite would copy Wright right rite, and violate copyright, which Wright would have the right to right.

Right?

Copyright 1991 Shelley Herman S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., Whittier Chapter