After reading the article, I can only conclude that Ancestry is being a perfectly good actor on the web? They're respecting robots.txt files, they're properly s

After reading the article, I can only conclude that Ancestry is being a perfectly good actor on the web? They're respecting robots.txt files, they're properly summarizing with source citation instead of verbatim copying, etc. and they make that information available for free. That's literally doing what every search engine on the web has ever done. Better, honestly, because not all search engines respect robots.txt in the slightest. If anything, both the isle of man and aberdeenshire memorial folks seem to misunderstand what the web is, and what putting data on the web means. (And from a legal perspective, I am amazed they can lay any sort of claim to the genealogical facts; you can certainly own the copyright for "an entire work", but you can't own the fact that person X and person Y begot person Z)