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From: Kay Allen AG <>
Subject: Re: James Cudworth of Massachusetts
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 14:43:56 -0700


The Board for Certification of Genealogists recently printed some
material on this issue in its organ, On Board.

Here in the States, the work is the property of the researcher, who
agrees in advance as to who is going to publish the material. The
material may be given to the client to publish, but if the finished
article differs materially from what the researcher gave the client,
such as eliminating conclusions reached or misrepresenting what the
researcher found or not crediting the researcher, then there would be
grounds for a lawsuit. If the researcher publishes, then mention must be
made of the client who footed the bill.

Kay Allen AG


Renia wrote:
>
> I understood that work undertaken on behalf of a paying client results in
> the copyright being held by the client, not the researcher. It is for this
> reason, that I have never attempted to reveal work undertaken on behalf of
> my own clients, nor tried to publish it, for it would be up to the client to
> publish, if he so wished. Is that not the case, then?
>
> Renia
>



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