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The following information is for those who are concerned about the nature of the copyright of items placed on the OHGenWeb Archives. 

This page is NOT required reading for anyone wishing to submit files for Archiving. 

The Archives are intended for information that is in the Public Domain, i.e. that which is uncopyrightable, or the copyright has expired. 

OHGenWeb Archives will not knowingly place any file online that is under copyright, without permission of the copyright owner. 

In placing files on the Archives, the following general guidelines have been used: 

1. ALL items with an ORIGINAL publishing or copyright date prior to 1923 are public domain.  Anyone, including OHGenWeb Archives, may use them and distribute them freely. 

Other types of "public domain" records, regardless of their date, would be:  Government public records; other public records; names, or simple lists of names. 

[However, in order to maintain the good will of the individual Chapters of the Ohio Genealogical Society, et al, we will not knowingly post any portion from their "in print" publications containing transcriptions prepared for their societies, without their permission.] 

2. For items between 1923 and 1950, in order to still be copyrighted, the copyright holder must have renewed the copyright before the date it originally expired( a term of 28 years ). However, because of the difficulty in determining the renewal of copyright for most documents of this period (as well as 1950 to present), it is required of the submitter to provide assurance* of non-copyright for other than "public domain" materials. 

[*One exception to this would be newspaper items (e.g. obits) before 1950: generally, any copyright on those has expired.] 

If you wish to reproduce any document archived here at OHGenWeb: 
U.S. Copyright Law allows for 'fair use' of copyrighted material; 'fair use' being reproduction of small portions for research. Reproduction of larger portions of copyrighted work will require the permission of the copyright owner.   
Commercial use of OHGenWeb Archives' files is prohibited. 

Any of the above is not to be construed as legal advice. 

For additional info about Copyright:
An article on Copyrights and 'Fair Use' by CETUS
Who Owns Genealogy? "Cousins and Copyrights" by Gary B. Hoffman (This is an excellent site.)
Copyright Stuff from Cyndi's List (This site is chock full of Reference Information.)
United States Copyright Office
Copyright according to Microsoft
What is a Copyright?
Copyright Information for USGenWeb Volunteers

The OHGenWeb Archives website is found FREE at
http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm

Links to the county OHGenWeb pages for additional information
on the county, including queries, lookup volunteers, mailing lists,
and other research assistance are located on the following page.
http://www.ohgenweb.org/counties.php

You may search the OHGenWeb Archives by any keyword (Surname, etc.) at the the Ohio Archives Search Engine.

SUBMISSION FORMS: The forms at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ allow you to type your record and submit it. This will create a file in a format acceptable for OHArchives and ready for posting. These forms are not mandatory and if you have data already typed please send it in text format to the Archives File Manager.

If you have files to submit, please go to the following forms: Ohio submissions page.



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