| Copyright Policy for The Glenlivet Project and Clicktrees.com |
Clicktrees.com, operators of this site, recognize the various
copyright laws in place in countries around the world and
have created this copyright policy to mitigate any concerns
over ownership of material that is contributed to the project.
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| Overview: |
Facts can not be copyrighted. Compilations of names, dates,
places, relationships are not subject to copyright protection.
Published family trees become public domain the moment they
are published.
Notes, comments, sources, e-mail, message board posts, and
original prose in any form can be copyrighted and permission
must be obtained from the author before using. Photographs
are subject to copyright protection and permission must be
obtained from the creator of the photograph. Scanning or digitally
reproducing an image or document does not change the copyright
status. Copyrights on original material expire based on the
time that has elapsed, whether the author has renewed the
copyright, and which country the original work was published
in. As a general rule of thumb in the US, published works
that are older than 1923 are no longer protected by copyright
and published works before 1989 without proper copyright notice
are also public domain. As I am not a copyright lawyer, all
of the statements made in this copyright policy page are personal
opinions. If you have specific questions, you should consult
an expert.
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| The specifics of our Copyright Policy are best described
in the answers to the following Frequently Asked Questions: |
What about Fair Use?
In the US, researchers are allowed to copy limited amounts of
an author's original work for personal use as long as: 1) the
material is for non-profit educational use, 2) There is a limited
amount of copying 3) The copying does not diminish the market
value or usefulness of the original work. |
What about all the time and effort I made in compiling
my family tree?
Copyright law only deals with original work. Compilations of
existing facts have no protection under copyright law because
you did not create the facts. If there is some originality in
the way the facts are presented, there can by copyright on that
presentation, but the facts are still public domain. If someone
takes your work and presents it as their own, this is called
plagiarism and is considered very bad form, but it is not covered
by copyright law. |
What information is copyrighted on the Clicktrees
website?
Clicktrees.com owns the copyright to the design, layout, and
imagery used on the Clicktrees website. All other material is
in the public domain. |
What should be done if I think a copyrighted work
is on Clicktrees.com?
Report all suspected copyright violations to support@clicktrees.com |
If I submit material to Clicktrees.com, will someone
check it for copyright violations?
From our Terms and Conditions. "For
User Provided Content, Clicktrees.com is merely hosting and
providing access, and accepts no liability whatsoever with regard
to such material (including with respect to its accuracy). By
submitting material to Clicktrees.com, you grant The Glenlivet
Project a licence to host and provide access to such material
and to use the data contained in that material as search results
and to integrate that data into the Service as it deems appropriate.
You must submit only material which belongs to you and which
will not violate the property or other rights of other people
or organizations. We are sensitive to the copyright and other
intellectual property rights of others and will remove material
that is shown to be in violation of copyright law. We
will not 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 user submitted family tree elements of the Site which
appears in our best judgment to pertain to a living person. |
So can I just download whatever I want from Clicktrees.com
and use it as my own?
Any genealogist worth anything will tell you that if you do
not quote the source of your material, the assertion made in
your genealogy is useless. Yes, you could take the facts from
this website and use them without giving a source citation back
to Clicktrees.com. But, if anyone using your information in
the future would like to check the source for accuracy, the
link to the original source will be broken. The data will become
useless and you will have accumulated some really bad genealogy
karma. |
If I use information from Clicktrees.com, how should
I cite your website?
Please use this format proposed by Elizabeth Mills in her book
Evidence!
The Glenlivet Project, online <http://www.clicktrees.com>,
{the name of person linked to goes here}, data downloaded {date
downloaded or recorded goes here}. |
Contacting the Website
If you have any questions about this copyright policy, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this Website, you can contact:
support@clicktrees.com |
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