COPYRIGHT:
Conditions of use (2)
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Conditions of use:
If you are trying to report an error on one of the GENUKI pages
I (Colin Hinson) maintain, please return to the page with the error and use the link
at the bottom left of the page.
If you are trying to report an error for other pages that I maintain, please use the
link at the bottom of this page.
If you are trying to contact me for some other reason, please
use my Email
page.
Introduction:
If you are wanting to use data from pages which I maintain
for personal use, then most of the Introduction will not
apply to you, but please read on.
It annoys me no end to have to write this and the following paragraph,
however I am "fed up to the back teeth" with people
stealing work belonging to me and others from the Genuki site in particular (but not only)
and using it on their own web-sites to enhance their content.
What really annoys me is that frequently they claim copyright
on their pages containing the stolen data (in some cases containing
only the stolen data). As from Jan. 31st 2007, those responsible
for a website found with information copied without permission
from any of the pages which I maintain (or other pages which contain
my transcriptions/photographs), will be invoiced at £100
per extract (twice that for commercial sites i.e. those with adverts
or selling goods or services), and £200 per photograph (per
year or part thereof). You should be aware that most of the transcriptions
are not word for word as per the original books (errors corrected,
words swapped etc.) and so virtually all the transcriptions are
identifiable.
Why should I invoice you for the use of my work? Well, presumably
you are using it to save yourself time and money, and I don't see why
I should use my time and money for you to take my work for free.
The above fees are approximately what it would cost you for me
to generate the data/photograph if I were working for you in my
professional capacity.
Summary (but please ensure you read the rest of the page):
Please remember that publishing a web-page is no different
to publishing a book or magazine as far as copyright is concerned.
- Personal use:
You may use both photographs and text from the Genuki site for
your own personal use such as inclusion in an unpublished family
history document. Personal use does not include web-sites of
any sort.
- Non personal use:
- Photographs:
- Church websites: permission will normally be given for free
use of a photograph of a church on a Church website, or a website
associated with the church. This does not include village/town
websites unless these contain pages specifically maintained for
the relevant church(es).
- Other websites: I sell images as part of my business, and
therefore you will need to pay the current rate (£10 per
single image use at the time of writing) to use one of my images
on your website. Please see below for more.
- Text: Other than "fair use" (see "Quoting
from Genuki pages" below), permission will not be given
to copy data onto other websites. Please see below for more.
Conditions of use for transcribed and other material.
As you have arrived on this page, you probably came either
from a page of transcribed information which was transcribed by
me (Colin Hinson), or a page, photograph or graphic to which I
or others hold the copyright.
If you came from someone else's page, or a page containing
data generated by someone else and "htmlised" by me,
then the same general rules and conditions apply, but this page
should be read in the 1st person plural, and not 1st person singular
(e.g. "we" instead of "I". )
This page is aimed mainly (but not only) at those who would
attempt to make monetary gain from my (or other people's) endeavours,
or to build their website from my work and material.
Note: Under English Law, it doesn't have to say copyright
on it to be copyrighted, and it would be English Law that would
be used against any infringements of the following conditions.
You may not post material from this site on another web
site (including "Blogs") or on a computer network without permission. You may not
use this site or information found at this site for selling or
promoting products or services, soliciting clients, or any other
commercial purpose. You may not copy information from this site (other than for personal use)
by any electronic or other means. "This site" means any World Wide
Web site with "genuki" or "Blunham" in the
URL pathname, or web-site which includes any of my databases. Whilst there are no objections to using small quotes
of data from this site (for instance to answer queries on Mailing
lists and Newsgroups), the URL of the page you are quoting from
must be given in order to ensure that your readers are aware that
the data is not yours and that there is copyright involved.
All the material which is to be found on the Genuki Yorkshire
site (any page which has a URL starting with "www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/")
is held in a database by me, along with other data on the Genuki site such as the 1868
National Gazeteer and 1887 Bartholomew's Gazetteer, Royalty and other pages. Software which I wrote,
maintain and to which I own the copyright,
is used to extract the relevant data and generate the pages which
you see on the Genuki Yorkshire site. A United Kingdom Act of
1997/8 specifically covers the compiling and use of database material:
Database Right, all databases used for this website are covered by the 1997 Database Regulations: "The
Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997" (SI. 3032 of 1997).
Colin Hinson (and others as stated on the relevant pages) are
the makers of the database used for this website and the owner
of the database rights.
General aims:
My aim in making transcripts of books and other data available
on the Web is to make data from old/rare books available to those
who would not otherwise have access to them. On the Web sites
which I maintain there are also photographs, graphics, articles
and lists to which I or others hold the copyright. It is my/our
intention that this data should be available free, but only for
personal use (normally with respect to genealogy). Personal
use means exactly that, use by you and not other people. As I
mentioned above, under the UK copyright law (which is automatic
on web pages), you would be allowed to copy very little and this
would not permit you to copy, say, a whole of a Genuki page into
your own personal copy of a family history. I have no objection
to your using the data for this purpose and you don't need to
ask me for permission to use it. However if you are going to publish
(i.e. make more than one copy of) your family history then you
need the permission of the copyright holder to use the data, regardless
of whether or not you are charging the recipient for the publication.
If you would like to read someone else's views on this matter, please
see Rosmary Lockie's conditions of use.
Breaches of copyright:
I have had (or am having) problems with people who are:
- Copying data for use on shareware CD rom or floppy disk.
- Copying data for use on commercial file download sites.
- Copying data for use on Micro-fiche.
- Copying data for use on other Web sites without permission:
it is not my aim by making this data available to make it easier
for others to build their own websites from this data.
- Copying data for use on other Web sites without permission
and then claiming copyright on the page and photographs with
no acknowledgements.
- Copying lists of place-names (ususally for the sole purpose of attracting
search-engines to their site).
- Copying data from the Genuki site and including the copyright symbol '©'.
- This does not get you round the copyright laws - it means that you know the data is copyright and yet you
- still copied it!! If you copy with or without the symbol, it is still a breach of my/our copyright.
Up to the beginning of 2002 I had been fairly lax in pursuing
breaches of copyright - simply requesting the removal of the data.
However with the rapid increase in Internet usage, breaches of
my/our copyright are becoming extremely frequent. As a consequence
of this, any breaches of copyright will now be met with an invoice
from me (of a value determined by me, depending on the severity
of the breach). Failure to pay the invoice will be followed by
an application to the small claims court in the UK for payment
of the invoice plus expenses.
Link instead of copying:
If you have web pages yourself, then you are welcome to link
into the appropriate Genuki Yorkshire page without asking me,
although it would be nice if you would let me know that you have
done so, as I can then let you know if any of the pages move.
But, please, no more copying of Genuki pages or photographs
to other websites - please just use a link instead.
Quoting from Genuki pages:
The law allows "fair dealing" or "fair use".
This is difficult to define, but would probably be acceptable
at around 10-15% of your article where the rest of the
article is in your own words. Note that this means your own
words, and not more words quoted from other places. To quote from
the Intellectual Property Office "it is probably within the scope
of the fair dealing exception (to copyright) to make
single (photo)copies of short extracts of a copyright work for certain purposes,
that is, non-commercial research or private study, criticism or review, etc.". It is
not legal to build web pages from extracts of others, as has been
done by several people from Genuki pages. If you do so, you will
be named, shamed and invoiced. In all cases you must place an
acknowledgement of where the quote came from. Failure to do so
will again place you in breach of copyright, particularly if someone
else copies the data from you. Note that "fair use" does not cover photographs.
Permission to use copyright data and photographs:
Personal use: You may use my/our photographs and transcriptions
from the Genuki site for your own personal use (e.g. to make a
single hard-copy "Family tree") without asking for permission(s)
to do so. You must not allow your work to be copied because if
you do, this will not then come under "Personal use".
Personal use does not include personal web-sites!!
Data/text: Permission will not be given to copy any
of my transcriptions (though other people may give you permission
to copy theirs) other than the small amounts that fall within
the "fair use" of the copyright law and for personal
use as stated above. If you need a large percentage of a page
for use on a web-site, then use a link - don't copy! The Genuki
website is not going to go away! The fact that the transcriptions
are of books that are out of copyright does not mean that the
transcriptions are also out of copyright. I have many thousands
of hours and hundreds of pounds invested in the Genuki website
and I am not prepared to give away either my work or my money.
So, if you want the transcriptions on your website, then either
buy the books or CDroms of the books yourself and do the transcriptions.
I sell the books that I have transcribed here on CDrom at about
5% or less of the price of a book (see my CDrom
website).
Photographs:
I sell images as part of my business, and it costs me a lot
of money to gather photographs (many hundreds of pounds), as Yorkshire
covers around 10% of the area of England, and petrol and cameras
are not cheap in the UK. In a normal publishing situation, either
a one-off charge would be made, or royalties would be charged
on the sales of the books. I should point out that UK magazines
usually pay at least £50 pounds for photographs (Fifty pounds
sterling).
- Photographs for use on Web sites:
- Permission will normally be given for the free use of church
photographs on web sites of the relevant churches or sites
associated with those churches. If you are looking for the
use of my photographs on village/town web-sites then please use
a link to the Genuki html page containing the photograph.
I appreciate that there are circumstances in which it is very
inconvenient to link, so if you really need a copy of the photograph
on your website please see my page
for charges for this
- Photographs for use in Books, magazines etc:
- I place book publication into 3 classes, but in each case
you need both to have permission and to obey the copyright rules
to use the photograph:
- 1. Private publication, where the books may be distributed
to family members at no charge: no charge will be made for the
use of a photograph but you will need permission.
- 2. Private low volume publication where the books are distributed
at a charge to re-coup the publication costs: A one-off charge
will be made for the use of a photograph.
- 3. General publication where the books are for general sale
(but not necessarily available in shops): Royalties will be charged
at an agreed rate.
- If your situation doesn't come under any of the above, please
drop me a line.
If you want permission to use any of my photographs, then please
email me via the Photograph
Copyright email page. You will need to describe exactly
which photograph it is that you want to use, and where and how
you want to use it.
Remember that even if you have permission to use the
photograph, you don't have the copyright and so you must place
an acknowledgement on the page/document giving an acknowledgement
to the owner of the copyright of the photograph.
The acknowledgement does not need to be "in your face"
- a simple sentence such as:
"Photograph(s) by permission of the copyright owner, Colin
Hinson ©
2005"
placed at the bottom of the page in a small (but readable) font
is fine.
Failure to do so will again place you in breach of copyright,
particularly if someone else copies the data/photograph from you.
MAPS: If you need to use any of my maps on a web-site,
then please link either directly to the relevant map or the page
which contains information about the map. Permission will not
be given to copy the map(s) to other web-sites. If you need to
use a section of one of the parish maps, then please email
me as I have other maps designed to make it easier to do this.
Finally
If you have any questions/queries on the content of this
page or any of my (or other people's) transcriptions, please see
my email
page.
This page has been placed in the "Public Domain"
by Colin Hinson. If you are having problems similar to those mentioned
above, or simply need a page to work from, then you are very welcome
to copy and modify this page for your own use on the Internet.
The only condition of use for this is that you include this paragraph
or something very similar.
Written by Colin Hinson © 2008
This page is copyright. Do not copy any part of this page or website other than for personal
use or as given in the conditions of use.
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