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From: "Ginger" <>
Subject: Re: [USGENWEB-ALL-L] Important Announcement--The USGenWeb Project
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:02:17 -0600
Woke me up too Loretta.
I changed the name of my index page from Pope
Co USGenWeb to Pope Co ILGenWeb. That should
eliminate any confusion.
Sounds to me not like a "poor choice" at all, Megan.<G>
Ginger
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> From: Ms. Piglet <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [USGENWEB-ALL-L] Important Announcement--The USGenWeb Project
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 1998 6:43 AM
>
> Loretta Krumwiede Barlow wrote:
> >
> > Ms. Piglet wrote:
> > >
> > > Jerry Dill, Lucy Dill, and Pat Smith have privately incorporated as
> > > USGenWeb, Inc., a for-profit Idaho corporation.
> >
> > Well, THAT woke me up this morning.
> >
> > Megan and all, I immediately placed a disclaimer at the top of the index
> > pages for both of my counties.
> >
> > How do you feel about the necessity for doing this? Should we ask our
> > board to come up with a standard disclaimer and a standard location for
> > that disclaimer for all pages in The USGenWeb Project (a phrase we now
> > will be forced to use religiously and in its entirety or risk
> > infringement!)?
>
> Number one, we've got a pretty dang clear case for prior use, so I don't
> think calling ourselves USGenWeb constitutes infringement...they've got
> a corporation, not a copyright.
>
> Second....I don't know that disclaimers are necessary, although as
> always folks can pretty much put on their personal pages what they think
> is befitting.
>
> Let's not get all het up here. I'm not happy about this either, but
> everything I'm hearing is that it has no legal impact on the project
> whatsoever; it was just a poor choice of actions on their part.
>
> megan
>
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>
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