[Gllug] [OT] ripping us off with our data

[Don Williams]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 23:11 +0100, John Southern wrote:
> 
> On the topic of freedom of the National Archives, you will find that the 
> digital data seems to be owned by either S&N or SteppingStones (actually just 
> been bought by S&N). They have paid for the digital scans and so copyright is 
> theirs. Their disks are in PDF format, but the transcribed indexes which you 
> can search for are done by people who have bought the disks, but the 
> copyright is with S&N.
> IANAL, but it does look as though a national resource is now owned by a 
> company!
> 
> Looking at the pdf of the Philimores Cornish registers, each page appears to 
> be made up of alternative thin stripes, so copying text is harder than it 
> should be.
> 
> Both Ancestry and FindMyPast are free to access if you use the machines at the 
> National Archives at Kew.
> 
> John
> 
My hearty thanks John for this excellent gallimaufry - I think you have
enabled hours of less expensive research for me. I am currently
"peopling" my edition of Gramps, from memory and contacts - "making my
bed."
	More broadly, I find a continuous redefinition of word meanings a
whimsical side-line ...
	My thanks go also to GLLUG and all who sail in her.
	Cheers, Don Williams 

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