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Re:Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from ... by louthy on Sunday May 05, 2024 @12:13PM (#40265935)
If the material is copyrighted then reuse should be licensed. Otherwise I believe you’re in breach of copyright — whether that technically falls into the category of ‘theft’, I’m not sure, but it’s not legal (outside of ‘fair use’)
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Re:Aberdeenshire memorial inscriptions records removed from ... by mistrial9 on Sunday May 05, 2024 @12:26PM (#40266042)
American here - agree that copyright is important and has been trampled in the digital age.. however no one is innocent in this case, rather it appears to be a dog pile of commercial interest in public records. Ancestry dot com are crass commercial managers who took advantage of the commercialization of the web

source: the 90s purchase of the rootsweb mailing list assets by Ancestry dot com, their transaction records and subsequent paywall garden with lots of extras

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