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If the material is copyrighted then reuse should be licensed. Otherwise I believe you’re in breach of copyright — whether that technically falls into the catego
by louthy 2y ago
If the material is copyrighted then reuse should be licensed. Otherwise I believe you’re in breach of copyright — whether that technically falls into the category of ‘theft’, I’m not sure, but it’s not legal (outside of ‘fair use’)
- mistrial9 2y agoAmerican here - agree that copyright is important and has been trampled in the digital age.. however no one is innocent in this case, rather it appears to be a dog pile of commercial interest in public records. Ancestry dot com are crass commercial managers who took advantage of the commercialization of the web source: the 90s purchase of the rootsweb mailing list assets by Ancestry dot com, their transaction records and subsequent paywall garden with lots of extras