[Genealib] [Fwd: [BuffaloHistory] A web service to avoid]

[Sharon Centanne]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [BuffaloHistory] A web service to avoid
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:41:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cynthia Van Ness <bettybarcode at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: BuffaloHistory at yahoogroups.com
To: NYERIE <nyerie at rootsweb.com>,Buffalo History
<BuffaloHistory at yahoogroups.com>

>From one of my lists, AncestryBank looks like a web service to
avoid.

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:17:15 -0500
From: "steven perkins" <scperkins at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Genealib] ancestrybank
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" 
<genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>


Hello:

I was able to get to the site and read the terms of use. 
Basically if you send them a scanned "original" "handwritten"
document from 1885 or earlier, they will sell others a copy of
the document for $5 and give you $2.50 when your earnings reach
$25 or more.  They get the exclusive right to sell that document
image on the INTERNET.  The buyer is expressly forbidden to put
the image on the INTERNET or otherwise sell it without express
permission from AncestryBank.

In a way I can see this as a method to try to get control of the
reproduction of public domain historical documents.  I'd be very
wary of this.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins

On 10/3/06, Larry Naukam <lnaukam at mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us>
wrote:
>
> From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
> [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf
> Of Amber Cushing
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:15 AM
> To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
> Subject: [Genealib] ancestrybank
>
> Sorry for the cross posting, but I am now curious about this 
myself.  This
> was originally posted on the archives and archivists listserv.
 Is anyone
> familiar with ancestrybank?  Do you find it useful?  

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Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com
http://www.BuffaloResearch.com

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