tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8224874.post596495965661009635..comments2024-03-09T15:04:13.697-08:00Comments on GeneaBlogie: Did Ancestry Violate Copyright Law? . . . . Part 3of 4: Fair UseCraig Mansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567686559055003349noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8224874.post-8504222751097667922007-09-13T12:42:00.000-07:002007-09-13T12:42:00.000-07:00Rootsweb ( a subsection of TGN) has a slightly dif...Rootsweb ( a subsection of TGN) has a slightly different AUP section on "User contributed content"<BR/><BR/>(Does having a web site hosted on their serve constitute a 'Contribution of Content" or just a right to serve that content as the hosted individual desires?)<BR/><BR/>Here it is:<BR/><BR/><BR/>User-Provided Content<BR/>Portions of the Service will contain user-provided content, to which you may contribute appropriate content (the “Submitted Content”) <B>For this Content, the submitter is the owner, and RootsWeb.com is only a distributor. By submitting Submitted Content to RootsWeb.com, you grant MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the Service, a limited license to the Submitted Content to use, host, and distribute that Submitted Content and allow hosting and distribution on co-branded Services of that Submitted Content.</B> You should submit only content which belongs to you and will not violate the property or other rights of other people or organizations. <B>MyFamily.com, Inc. is sensitive to copyright and other intellectual property rights of others.</B> For more information concerning copyright issues, view our corporate policy. Content submitted for the purpose of commercial use, advertising or fee for service is prohibited. We will not edit or monitor user-provided content, with the exception that, to promote privacy, an automated filtering tool will be used to suppress and omit from display information submitted to the WorldConnect Family Tree Project which appears in our best judgment to pertain to a living person. MyFamily.com, Inc. also reserves the right to remove any user provided content that comes to its attention and that it believes, in its sole discretion, is illegal, obscene, indecent, defamatory, incites racial or ethnic hatred or violates the rights of others. Any records removal requests within user-submitted data should be directed to the submitters of that data. <B>In the event that a submitter dies, the content will remain online unless the family or executor of the estate removes the content using the submitter's username and password.</B> Sites hosted by MyFamily.com, Inc. are not monitored. We request that all using this feature comply with the Terms and Conditions as well as general Internet etiquette. If it is brought to the attention of MyFamily.com, Inc. that a posting violates the Terms and Conditions, that Submitted Content will be removed."<BR/><BR/><B>[another question if a submitter dies, and the survivors do not know the 'secret password" can that content be displayed forever?]</B>Jeff Scismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16191390221589431526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8224874.post-64603938609375539272007-09-12T13:19:00.000-07:002007-09-12T13:19:00.000-07:00Craig, Thanks for this very learned presentation ...Craig, Thanks for this very learned presentation of copyright laws --- I feel more empowered after reading your presentation and will post my views of all of this in an article tomorrow or the next day at my blog.<BR/><BR/>After reading the four factors which a court must analyze in a case-by-case review, I came to the opinion that the folks over at Ancestry are legally "up shit creek without a paddle" (to use a good old Hill Country idiom!).<BR/><BR/>Terry Thornton<BR/>Hill Country of Monroe County, MississippiTerry Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251750196282728118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8224874.post-56644869314049343402007-09-11T21:43:00.000-07:002007-09-11T21:43:00.000-07:00Craig,WOW! It is obvious that you have spent a gr...Craig,<BR/><BR/>WOW! It is obvious that you have spent a great deal of time analyzing the IBC controversy, and I for one am extremely grateful.<BR/><BR/>I look forward to part IV.<BR/><BR/>JaniceJanicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17476918537317701594noreply@blogger.com