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The gift of Carol Highsmith It isn’t possible to overstate what genealogists — and Americans — owe to Carol Highsmith. She hasn’t, to The Legal Genealogist’s knowledge, indexed a single census record. She hasn’t transcribed a single...In celebration of books and…
Happy World Book and Copyright Day 2014 So you have The Legal Genealogist’s official permission — as if you needed it! — to go ahead and read a book today. And to honor the legal scheme — the notion of copyright — that encourages authors...Copyright, terms of use and Flipboard
Next in an occasional series on copyright and terms of use It can be a visually stunning way of presenting information, this new tool called Flipboard. It’s billed as “your personal magazine, filled with the things you care about.” And as a way to “catch up on...Mapping memory
And free to boot Most of the time, when The Legal Genealogist writes about copyright, it’s to say there’s a reason why some things — images, documents, whatever — can’t be used freely in our genealogy. Usually there’s someone out...Courtesy, ethics and law
Credit where credit is due Randy Seaver, author of the Genea-Musings blog, is one of the most prolific genealogy writers around, with a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly output that far exceeds anything The Legal Genealogist could ever envision. His “Saturday Night...Copyright and the school yearbook
Next in an occasional series on copyright We have all been there, done that, those of us who grew up in the United States. On a day appointed, with black eyes, or braces, or missing front teeth, or hair that won’t behave, or the shirt our mothers detested, or an...Copyright and the donated manuscripts
Next in an occasional series on copyright Reader Phil Murray has in his possession two interesting handwritten documents that he wants to preserve for the future. The first is a handwritten copy of a story of one family’s experience during the American...Copyright and the republished work
Republishing and the public domain Reader Tim Campbell, a Canadian, is struggling to understand what the copyright implications are when an older work is incorporated into a newer work. The scenario he’s specifically looking at is this: • A Canadian author wrote...Copyright and the recipe
Next in an occasional series on copyright Reader Grace Yuhasz was lucky: her grandmother was a home economics teacher. Lucky enough to benefit from the work product of a competent cook. Even luckier since she left her a collection of recipes. But that raises a...Subscribe by Email
