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From: Yvon Cyr <>
Subject: Copyright considerations; please read carefully!
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 21:33:22 -0400

Hi Folks:

The following message is posted for the benefit of "new" members of this
ACADIAN-CAJUN Mailing List and will be re-posted on an ongoing basis.
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[IMPORTANT: Please be certain to read this message in its entirety].

Copyright issues are very complicated and while it is not my intent to
discourage anyone from posting the excellent historical information which
benefits all subscribers, it is very important that you be made aware of
Rootsweb's policy relative copyright:

1. ROOTSWEB'S COMMON-SENSE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY:
Neither Rootsweb nor the Listowner (me) own the material posted on Mailing
Lists. YOU OWN YOUR POSTS. When you post messages to this Mailing List,
message boards, and other facilities at RootsWeb, those posts remain YOUR
property under copyright law and as such, it is YOUR responsibility to
ensure that the material posted meets established copyright regulations.

2. ROOTSWEB MAY ARCHIVE AND REDISTRIBUTE:
By posting to this Mailing List, you give RootsWeb a permanent license to
archive and redistribute those posts, so as to provide current and future
users access to your posts,. This policy may be superseded in specific
circumstances by other commitments made by RootsWeb.

3. POST ONLY MATERIAL YOU OWN:
When you post to RootsWeb, you must either be the copyright holder (that
basically means you wrote it), have written permission from the copyright
holder, or the material must clearly be in the public domain (which is very
often the case).

4. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR POSTS:
If you post anything that results in RootsWeb being sued, you are
responsible for any costs you incur. They may also hold you responsible for
any costs they incur defending themselves.

5. ROOTSWEB RESOURCES MAY NOT BE RESOLD:
No RootsWeb facilities -- for example, Web sites, Mailing Lists, and
message boards -- may be resold. Public domain content on RootsWeb may not
be harvested for commercial or other use, other than as would
have been permitted by the Fair Use provisions of American copyright law if
the material had been copyrighted. Material written and posted by an
individual may not be harvested for commercial or other use, except with
the permission of that individual or as permitted by Fair Use.

6. ROOTSWEB MAY REFUSE SERVICE:
For violations of this agreement or other policies posted on the RootsWeb
site, RootsWeb may revoke the violator's right to use part or all of the
RootsWeb site.

SUMMARY:
As you can clearly see, RootsWeb takes the rights of copyright owners
seriously. As their Acceptable Use Policy (above) states, users are
expected to post only material they own. Therefore when you post to the
RootsWeb's Mailing List, you must either be the copyright holder (that
basically means you wrote it), have written permission from the copyright
holder, or the material must clearly be in the public domain.

For additional information and guidelines pertaining to "copyright", please
visit:

<http://twp.rootsweb.com/copyright.html>;

YVON'S FINAL THOUGHT:
After reading the massive amount of information at the above -noted link,
it appears that the consensus is that one can reprint a PORTION of an
article however, reprinting an entire article does violate the copyright. I
am certain that most people who do this, do not INTENTIONALLY violate the
copyright law, but nevertheless it is important that you protect
yourselves. Also, please remember, once a message is posted to the Mailing
List, it is automatically/permanently archived by the Rootsweb software and
CANNOT be removed from that archive. FYI.

AN IMPORTANT PS: The subject of "copyright" is NOT appropriate for this
Mailing List. If after carefully reviewing the information at the
above-noted link, you have any questions, they should be directed to ME in
a _private_ message.

YVON L. CYR, Facilitator of Rootsweb's ACADIAN-CAJUN
Mailing List. For details see URL : <http://www.acadian.org/rootsweb.html&g

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