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I don't see any copyright issues. The biographical facts are not copyrightable.

Randy is right, as long as you cite where the information came from.

This is a very tricky discussion in Europe and especially in the Netherlands, where copyrights are defended rather serious. It can't be true that in the situation you type information from someone who earns his money with it and hopes to get a pension of his lifelong input just by putting it on the internet with the remark that you used this or that source for youre copiing-activity , just are free of any responsability in a moral sense. It's rather difficult with all the different national laws about this aspect to get your truth, but I personally HOPE geni will discover to be a platform for people with co-operative and col-laborative skills and therefore i love the features of linking to good documented 'original' internet-sites where editors and writers did a huge job to get the information properly documented. Thats costs a lot of time and MONEY and nowone pays for that....

Thanks Georg.

As far as I know there is no copyright issue, in Europe or the US. The amount of effort is not a consideration. Copyrights are for "original" works of authorship. Facts, such as date and place of birth, death, marriage, etc. are not considered "original" even if they are hard to compile.

you're right, it's not about data of birth etc., just if you copy text that is constructed as a 'story', but of that I have seen also a lot copied in geni, even if the original one was signed by an author.

hope i wrote it right in english, I ment: data are not part of copyrights.