{"id":14765,"date":"2022-02-14T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14765"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:49:22","slug":"you-cannot-copyright-a-fact-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/you-cannot-copyright-a-fact-3\/","title":{"rendered":"You Cannot Copyright a Fact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A complete discussion of copyright law is beyond our purpose here at &#8220;Genealogy Tip of the Day,&#8221; but suffice it to say that a genealogical fact cannot be copyrighted. Your cousin in Arizona cannot copyright the fact that &#8220;John Smith was born in Maryland in 1783.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What he can copyright is a report he compiled showing why that year of birth is correct. The report he would be within his rights to lay copyright claim to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, if he spent years uncovering a fact and you use that fact in a compilation, it might be nice to give him credit for &#8220;finding&#8221; that fact. If you don&#8217;t, he might not share anything with you again! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And remember, it&#8217;s copyright, not &#8220;copywrite.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A complete discussion of copyright law is beyond our purpose here at &#8220;Genealogy Tip of the Day,&#8221; but suffice it to say that a genealogical fact cannot be copyrighted. Your cousin in Arizona cannot copyright the fact that &#8220;John Smith was born in Maryland in 1783.&#8221; What he can copyright is a report he compiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}