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Genealogical & Cheyenne July-August 2014 Historical Society Volume 11 Issue 4 Upcoming Events: 9 Sept 2014 Cheyenne Genealogy Journal CGHS Meeting: “Guided Tour of Fam- ily Search,” Jan Stock Message from the CGHS President… 6:00-8:30 p.m. Sunflower Room Another summer has come to an end, maybe not on the calendar, but I can feel LC Library, Cheyenne fall in the air. I had a niece get married this summer, so as a gift, I wanted to put together a small “our family” book for the new couple. I spent my summer gather- 12-13 Sept 2014 ing information on families I know absolutely nothing about—how fun! Tricks and Midwest Family tips I have learned over the years came in handy on this project and now comes History Expo the challenge of bringing it together! I look forward to hearing how all of you Kearney, Nebraska have spent your summer, and the successes and challenges you have faced in your https://www.familyhist research. We have some new officers & we will be sure to introduce them to all of oryexpos.com/vieweven you at our first meeting. If you see an unfamiliar face, don’t hesitate to intro- t/index/72 duce yourself. We have some wonderful programs planned for this year on a wide 18 Sept 2014 range of topics. Also, to aid society members in doing their research, our book Larimer County committee has made some great purchases for our collection. Be sure to check Genealogical Society them out (no pun intended)! Robin Everett, President Meeting: “Hiding in Plain Data- bases,” Dina Carson 6:30-8:30 p.m. Harmony Library Com- Saving Your Family History Securely in the “Cloud” munity Room, Ft. Collins Scott Allen from Utah Edu- users kept copies of pic- computer. And if informa- crypted now so this is no cation Network, recently tures and tion is put on the computer, longer such a problem); 4) took his audience at the 2014 information all devices will be synced, so no control over hardware or BYU Family History Confer- on CDs, the information can be network where the informa- ence into the mysterious DVDs, hard taken wherever the genealo- tion is stored—if there is a realms of the “Cloud” and drives, in gist goes. Allen listed sev- problem with the network, explained what that means. bank vaults, eral other advantages to information may not be able Technically, Wikipedia de- other stor- Cloud storage online: 1) no to be stored or retrieved. fines the cloud as a “model of age, or gave copies to oth- cost for storage facilities; According to Allen, however, networked enterprise stor- ers to keep. When we put 2) automatic backup in case the advantages far outweigh age where data is stored not our data into cloud storage, of problems; 3) retrieval the disadvantages. Some of only in the user’s computer, though, we keep the original from anywhere; and 4) in- the free cloud websites but in virtualized pools of information at home, and formation easily shared. include: storage which are generally store the data in a format Some disadvantages exist: Dropbox: www.dropbox.com; hosted by third parties, too.” that can be used by others 1) retrieval not as fast as GoogleDrive: Allen explained that we have who can have access to this local storage; 2) infections www.google.com/intl/en/drive/ pictures or information that data, with permission, in a with malware or viruses can AmazonCloudDrive: we want to keep on our home much easier way. The Cloud occur like any download; 3) www.amazon.com/clouddrive; computers or devices, but in can also be downloaded to encryption may not be done Apple iCloud: www.icloud.com case of fire or other disas- all the mobile devices that a as it is transferred to the Many other cloud storage web- sites, both free and paid, are ters, we want to be able to person owns, like iPhone, cloud (Allen said that more out there—check genealogical keep them safe. Pre-Cloud Android, iPad, not just a and more places are en- websites for favorites. Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy Researchers By Mike Goad, reprinted with permis- Is it copyrighted? tion to continue. The U.S. Copy- sion as a public service from the If it’s created today by the right Office estimates that over author; http://www.pddoc.com/ original expression of the author 90% of works eligible for renewal copyright/genealogy.htm and it can be viewed or copied, were never renewed. Since genealogical research in- then it is protected under copy- Original expression protected evitably involves copying of infor- right. The law says: “Copyright All that’s protected under copy- mation, questions involving copy- protection subsists…in original right is the author’s original ex- right often crop up. When an an- works of authorship fixed in any pression. The protected material swer is given, it may be less than tangible medium of expression, must have been independently cre- satisfactory. Sometimes the an- now known or later developed, ated by the author with at least swer is wrong, sometimes there is from which they can be perceived, some minimal amount of creativ- little or no explanation, and some- reproduced, or otherwise commu- ity. Anything in a work that isn’t times the answer isn’t an answer, nicated, either directly or with the author’s original expression but a policy statement. In other the aid of a machine or device.” isn’t protected by copyright. instances, the answer is right, but For works created earlier, there Facts can’t be original expression it isn’t what the questioner wanted are a few basic conditions for de- No one can claim originality in a to hear. While copyright can be termining copyright status: fact. At best, a person may dis- very complex and confusing, the If an original work of author- cover a fact. If he discovers it and parts of copyright law that usually ship was created after 1977, it’s documents it, he has not created apply to genealogy are really copyrighted and it’s going to be it. He has only reported it. There pretty basic. There are a few fun- for a very long time. The earliest is no originality. Census takers, for damentals that can help deal with that any work created after that instance, don’t create the data just about any genealogy copyright will lose its copyright will be about that result from their work. They situation. 2049 – that’s assuming that the write down the facts that they Copyright means copy “right” author died right after he au- discover. Census data, therefore, Literally, the term copyright thored the work. can’t be copyrighted because it’s means the right to make copies of If it was created before not original. Since facts can’t be some product. By law, the right 1923, there is no copyright on it original expression, the copyright belongs to its creator. In copyright any more, so long as it was pub- of any work doesn’t extend to the law, the product that’s copyrighted lished. If it wasn’t published, it facts contained within it. This is a is referred to as a “work” and the may still be protected by copy- very important fundamental con- creator of the work is its au- right. cept in genealogy, since genealogy thor. From that, we can say: Mak- Works published before so very much involves the pursuit, ing a copy of a work or a portion of March 1, 1989 without proper discovery, and collection of facts. a work is its author’s copy right. copyright notice are almost always While copyright doesn’t extend to In the U.S., the right to make a in the public domain because, un- facts, the facts may be expressed copy of a protected work is a con- der the law that existed before in an original fashion. When this stitutional, exclusive right of the that, a proper copyright notice occurs, the original expression work’s author, except that some was required for copyright pro- used to convey limited copying is allowed by provi- tection. the facts is pro- sions of the copyright law. (see tected, but the Works published from 1923 to Fair use) underlying facts 1963 had to be renewed after an are not. initial copyright term for protec- (Cont. page 3) Page 2 Cheyenne Genealogy Journal Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy Researchers...continued Pre-existing material to be eligible for copyright pro- However, the copyright protection Any pre-existing material in a tection, a factual compilation must for the compilation of facts in the work that’s not the original ex- have some amount of originality in third table applies only to the se- pression of the author isn’t pro- either the selection of the facts, lection and the arrangement of the tected by the author’s copy- the arrangement of the facts or facts. To copy the selection and right. Facts, which exist before both. And, then, the only part of arrangement of the facts would be the work is created, can’t be pro- the compilation that’s protected to infringe upon the right of copy tected by copyright, as previously will be that which has originality. belonging to the author. However, discussed. Other examples of pre- Example: Mary records the the facts that are included in the existing material that might be names, dates and inscriptions of compilation aren’t protected and used in a work include the work of all of the headstones in the Farn- may be used by anyone.

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