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Legal ‘bits’ and use of copyright & copyright acknowledgement

This site acknowledges all copyrights and ownership, if any person, organisation, business etc. feels that we have infringed upon their copyrights, could they please make contact with us, and hopefully we can put right our error. Whilst we have no wish to illegally use or steal other peoples material or copyright, we would in our defence like to say that this site has no wish or desire to profit from any of its contents. Its purpose is to solely promote The Bride Valley, Dorset Historical and Ancestral past.
We are including in this site anything we feel would further this aim.

If you are the owner of such copyrighted material, we have only used it because we have valued its content, therefore could you again please contact us, we would like to talk to you.
Firstly, to acknowledge your copyright, and our use of.
Secondly, to see if you would like to contribute anything or if you would just like to give us a little input.

This site has been built around the research of our family ancestors in the Dorset Area. We chose the name, as this is the first place we found our ancestors and the first place we met the first living relatives of our ancestors, in Dorset.

During this research we have spoken to many people.
Also in a strange way we have also spoken to our ‘past’ Ancestors by looking at photos and reading (books, magazines, leaflets, newspapers, & other websites ETC.)

Apart from what we have learnt by talking to people, and that which we have documented.

Like everybody else everything in all our publications is ‘technically’ ‘someone else’s work’, but for us this raises again technical and moral points.

If I read a book that I find one of my ancestors in, do I have the right to this story / information as it directly refers to a member of my family, or do my ancestors equally have a right to use?

With reference to ‘data’ all records we publish have been re-transcribed by ourselves, as what we use we like to be correct, and in many transcriptions we have found errors in (including the new 1911 census). We don’t claim to be perfect but do try to get it right!
We also draw from the Dorset OPC data that we belong to.

No one living to-day has any first-hand knowledge of yesterday.
Yesterday now consists of written information i.e. pictures and stories, that we all, general public, historians and genealogists’ have to rely on to discover the past!

Does that therefore give us the right to claim copyright and ownership? Just because we have re-worded history?

With regard to ‘all’ our material on this site, this is copyrighted to ourselves on mass, but is free to use for non-profit. Please contact us for more information, or to link to us.

In general we give thanks to the authors of all the material that we have read, digested, and have benefited from, and hope if they see snippets of their work on our site, they see it as a mark of appreciation and recognition of their valued works.
We also hope that our site is of such quality, that they receive no embarrassment by the inclusion of said use.

Thank you

Les&Lesley