Before we get to the heart of the legal analysis, here are some additional facts which may be legally significant. They were provided in the Comments to yesterday’s post by Janice Brown of Cow Hampshire. Janice first called my attention to this issue in late August.
Ancestry also provided an option (to subscribers only, [...]
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Part I of A Legal Analysis of the Late Controversy
By now, the brouhaha over Ancestry.com’s “Internet Biographical Collection” has largely blown over. Ancestry has said that they will permanently remove the database and the genealogical community is ready to move on.
The passage of a little time and the cooling of passion on the issue [...]
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