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From: "bluebear" <>
Subject: [BOARD] Fw: Motion 07-17 - Proposed Amendment To BylawsOn CopyrightPolicy
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:10:37 -0500
A member of NWPL has pointed out the following: "The first statement in the
revision says that we are responsible for a law. I don't think so. Perhaps
for compliance with a law, but not for the law itself." If the Advisory
Board decides that the proposed amendment should be submitted to the
membership, the current wording will need to be revised to make this
distinction.
Greta
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Subject: Re: [BOARD] Motion 07-17 - Proposed Amendment To Bylaws On
CopyrightPolicy
| No discussion. Greta
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Mike Peterson" <>
| To: <>
| Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:49 PM
| Subject: [BOARD] Motion 07-17 - Proposed Amendment To Bylaws On Copyright
| Policy
|
|
|| It has been moved by Larry and seconded by Greta that the Advisory Board
| consider an urgent proposed amendment to the Project Bylaws relative to
the
| Copyright policy. The motion is numbered 07-17 and is now open for
| discussion.
||
|| Whereas a bylaw amendment proposal has been submitted to the AB described
| as an urgent matter affecting the well-being of the Project, and
||
|| Whereas the USGenWeb bylaws provide that the AB shall propose urgent
| amendments,
||
|| I move that the following bylaw amendment proposal be considered as to
its
| urgency by vote of the AB. Should the outcome of the vote determine that
the
| proposal is urgent, I further move that the proposal be presented to the
| membership as an urgent amendment.
||
|| Should the outcome of the vote determine that the proposal does not meet
| the standards of an urgent amendment, I further move that the originator
of
| the proposal be thanked for his contribution in submitting the proposal.
||
|| PROPOSAL:
||
|| Under the Provisions of the USGenWeb Bylaws, Article XVI. "AMENDMENT TO
| BYLAWS", Section 5, I submit to the USGenWeb Project Advisory Board, and
| the National Coordinator, that the following section of the USGenWeb
| Project Bylaws, be urgently amended as follows:
||
|| That the current Article X which currently reads:
||
|| "ARTICLE X. COPYRIGHT
||
|| Section 1. In The USGenWeb Project, copyright of websites resides solely
| with the creator of the web page(s). Their inclusion as part of The
| USGenWeb Project does not give any irrevocable right, implied or
otherwise,
| to The USGenWeb Project to permanently use the material.
||
|| Section 2. In The USGenWeb Project, copyright to queries and any other
| data submitted to any state or local websites resides with the submitter.
| The submission of queries and other data to The USGenWeb Project implies
| that The USGenWeb Project may continue to post the material until/if such
| time the submitter requests removal.
||
|| Section 3. In The USGenWeb Project, copyright to data contributed to any
| special projects resides with the contributor, who agrees that The
USGenWeb
| Project, as a not-for-profit group, has permanent use of the data. The
| permanent use agreement is conditional upon the non-profit nature of The
| USGenWeb Project and will become null and void if The USGenWeb Project
| should ever cease to be non-profit.
||
|| Section 4. All members of The USGenWeb Project shall be responsible for
| adhering to The USGenWeb Project's Official Copyright Policy which may be
| found, along with further information about copyright, at The USGenWeb
| Project national website,
| http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html.";
||
|| Be amended to read:
||
|| "ARTICLE X. COPYRIGHT
||
|| Adherence to Title 17, US Code, The United States Copyright Law [Link
| to:http://www.copyright.gov/], is the responsibility of each member
website
| Coordinator, and the Site Coordinator has the responsibility to assure
that
| submitted materials for publication on any USGenWeb member site are in
| compliance."
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