From: exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
      
   "J. P. Gilliver (John)"  wrote on 21 Mar 2019 in   
   soc.genealogy.britain:   
      
   > OK, it might not be _copyright_ that is the relevant rights legislation.   
   > But there is _something_. There is _some_ justification: if a company   
   > has expended time and equipment, and therefore money, in making scans,   
   > and you just (say) print off and sell the scans you've downloaded from   
   > their website, they're entitled to be peeved. Ancestry and FMP being the   
   > obvious companies for this newsgroup. (Ancestry at least - probably all   
   > of them - watermark their images; for Ancestry, it's faint leaf   
   > symbols.)   
      
   Nonsense, this thread is ABOUT copyright.   
      
   And [international] law is not about "some justification",   
   it is not "common law".   
      
      
      
      
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