It’s not sharing
It’s theft Yet another case of genealogical theft is being reported in our community. This time, it’s the website GenealogyInTime Magazine reporting that some of its authored, copyrighted content is being reproduced, almost word for word, in the newsletter...Copyright and the volunteer author
Next in an occasional series on copyright October of every year is designated as Archives Month, and archives around the country try to do something special in recognition of Archives Month. Today and tomorrow, for example, the National Archives is continuing its...Rules of reason
Copyright and sharing The Legal Genealogist received a question from a reader that can only leave you shaking your head. “I belong to (a chat group),” she wrote. And, she went on: We have a (person) who volunteered to moderate one of our chats (who) published (the)...Copyright curiosities
Of animals and birthdays Two copyright issues have been swirling online in recent days which — despite the fact that neither of them particularly impacts genealogists — is kind of neat and kind of cool. It’s neat because the issues themselves are...Copyright and microfilm
Next in an occasional series on copyrights for genealogists. Reader Lee was confused about his right to use images of articles and other contents of newspapers from his state that he was accessing through microfilmed copies at his local library. He explained that the...Full house for copyright webinar!
Come early! It’s going to be a full house this afternoon for The Legal Genealogist’s Legacy Family Tree webinar, Copyright Mythconceptions. It seems that a lot of folks have questions about copyright — what’s allowed, what isn’t, and what...Safer image searches
Findings images with Google and Bing Sometimes, even The Legal Genealogist just has to do it. Consult, as my 13-year-old nephew occasionally says, in total jest, The Google. Or The Bing. Or some other search engine. Even when it comes to images we want to use as...NOT a fishy tale!
USFWS images This week The Legal Genealogist is highlighting some of the image collections that are available to us as genealogists to use in our own work. Photographs and illustrations that are free, or mostly free, of copyright restrictions, that we can freely use,...For the footloose
The Carpenter Collection This week The Legal Genealogist is highlighting some of the image collections that are available to us as genealogists to use in our own work. Photographs and illustrations that are free, or mostly free, of copyright restrictions, that we can...Subscribe by Email
