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From: "Chris & Tom Tinney, Sr." <>
Subject: Re: U.S. Copyright Law (was: several related threads with diffeent titles)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:52:11 -0800
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I wonder about the following, re copyright law:
What If someone were to do a scholarly study
about Google Groups? There are currently
over 700,000,000 messages. What if
someone wished to evaluate how many
messages were from the genealogy groups?
[This would be of great interest in obtaining
an ongoing estimate of the relative per cent of
Internet users who have an interest in genealogy
and family history, worldwide and by country.]

Then, what if someone were to find out what
the per cent was of those genealogy messages
that covered the medieval era as a representative
study in scholarly genealogy research? What if
that someone were then, under per cent usage,
to extensively but selectively quote from those
messages in a scholarly journal, for the sake of
an example of subjects covered? Would not
a research project of this sort be a fair use
application that would not require the permission
of individual authors to publish?

Respectfully yours,

Tom Tinney, Sr.
Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/
"Free Coverage of the Genealogy World in a Nutshell"
Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] -
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions]
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James P. Robins III wrote:

> You will find extensive analyses of copyright law, the Berne
> Convention, WIPO, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other
> issues bearing on this discussion in the archives. You are mistaken
> to think that the main participants in this debate, which has been
> going on for over a year, have not "taken the trouble to look with any
> depth into copyright law".
>
> Jim Robinson
>
> As the clock struck 06:44 AM 1/24/2002 -0800, Bryant Smith took pen in
> hand and wrote:
>
>> No one else seems to have taken the trouble to look with any depth
>> into copyright law as haphazardly discussed in several recent threads
>> about
>> a certain journal and its uses of the postings here of some
>> contributors who have taken exception to the journal's policies, so
>> I've done some homework and have come to some conclusions which may be
>> surprising.
>
>
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