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From: "CHARLENE PINKOWSKI" <>
Subject: Re: [Crawford] TYLER, LORD ... east of French Creek/LDS and the recorder
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:11:16 -0400
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What you see is a blanket policy because sometimes the LDS film records not
public, or the policy of the recording/archiving institution is such that
they are not allowed to sell the films. It is because of the LDS' policy
that they have been able to go into areas that would not ordinarily allow
filming of the records and film the records. It is the contract that they
make with the archive to allow the archive to understand that the LDS are
not there to make money off of the filming but in fact are helping to
preserve the record. There is nothing really odd about this arrangement. A
local area has the right to any moneys that might be earned regarding the
selling of record films, not the LDS. That is the way that they have always
done business with archives.
Charlene Calvert Pinkowski

Genealogy without documentation is mythology!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Garland" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Crawford] TYLER, LORD ... east of French Creek/LDS and the
recorder


>
> [The LDS has a policy of not selling copies of records without the consent
> of the owner of the original, even though the LDS films are available in
all
> of their libraries on loan.]
>
> This is the strange part to me. The deeds are a matter of public record.
> Perhaps this is what's confusing the recorder. He/she can't help but know
> that they don't have the right to deny publication.
>
> On the other hand, if these filmed records were not public records or
other
> public domain properties, it would be against copyright laws to have them
> available in the FHCs or anywhere else without consent of the "owner",
with
> or without a profit being made.
>
> Unless someone knows some other legal angle on this that I do not, it
> appears to me that the LDS' actions in either case defy logic.
>
> Jan g.
>
>
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