Copyright and family history
Posted on 9th August 2017
Many family historians regularly post online, or circulate on social media, images of themselves and their families and, on the whole, these will probably not fall foul of copyright or intellectual property laws, since they are likely to have been taken by family members who are the legal copyright holders, and who would, even if they should be unaware of the posting, not object to them being used Copyright is, however, a very tricky subject and there are grey areas, where some guidance might... more