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From: Teri Pettit <>
Subject: Re: [USGENWEB-ALL-L] re: Impotence and Copyright infringement
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:25:33 -0700


At 5:35 PM -0700 6/7/99, Fred Smoot wrote:
>A major tool is all the mailing lists we use. How would feel if you were
>a publisher of a book of scammed material and you were told that unless
>you remedied the situation, every genealogist on every list will be told
>the story?

Grateful for the free publicity!

People picking up databases online and redistributing them in other formats
see themselves as providing a service to the researcher. Very likely most
of their potential customers do as well. It is only the people who performed
the work and aren't getting the "rewards" who may resent it, and they aren't
most of the people on all the mailing lists we use.

>You let the publisher peek in the kit bag and see your tools. Then you
>make them an offer they can't refuse.

What kind of offer were you thinking of making? What would it mean for
the publisher to "accept" such an offer?

The kind of "offer" that I can think of a publisher finding hard to
refuse is something like "if you include an acknowledgement of our
Project on your books/CD's, we'll put an advertisement for them on
all our web sites", but somehow I doubt that is what you were thinking of.

Like you said to someone else last week, it is real hard to read between
the lines and figure out what all these allusions are intended to mean.

It may be less fun to write, but blunt and literal is a lot easier to
understand.

// Teri

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