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From: Guy Etchells <>
Subject: Re: [LIN] NBI requests, sorry no look-ups
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 08:00:58 +0100


Yes they do, when you purchase the CD you enter into a contract with the
Federation of Family History Societies, part of that contract is that
you will not distribute the information by way of look ups.
This has nothing to do with copyright law it is contract law that
applies.

In addition data in the UK is protected under the 1997 Database Act.
Cheers
Guy

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http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells Transcripts, Parish
Records, Calendar, Scaleable Map of Uk. Link to LDS website,
Abbreviations, Returns of Owners of Lands etc. etc.
http://www.guye.freeserve.co.uk Whitefield Transcripts, Etch/ells
Transcripts
http://gye.future.easyspace.com Worldwide Cemetery Links, Monumental
Inscriptions, War Graves, etc.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/CHURCH/church.htm
Churches & MIs. in the Wakefield Area
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/Ossett/obmi1.htm
Transcripts of 1st Baptist Burial ground Ossett
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/tmi.htm Photos of
St. James Churchyard, Wakefield
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/stcr/stjsc1.htm
Memorials in the burial ground of St John the Evangelist Church,
Staincross.


> I am curious. Do these CDs come with an actual licence that the purchaser
> signs or otherwise legally agrees to? If not, no amount of saying, "These
> CDs are sold only on the condition that..." can negate the fair use
> provisions of copyright, under which the purchaser of any copyrighted
> material can make as many copies of the the information contained therein as
> they like and distribute them as widely as they please, so long as this
> copying and distribution is not done for commercial gain.
> I am further curious. Were none of these sold to libraries?
>
> Jim Boyce
> Geneva, Switzerland
> Home of the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and of TRIPS
> (The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights),
> whereby the extent and limitations of the copyright laws of even the UK are
> defined by Treaty obligations.
>

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