Internet Archive and their books

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I’ve been working on the Tucker side of my tree. I’ve been using the book called Genealogy of the Tucker Family from various sources. I’ve also purchased the book from Amazon.

Someone told me that I couldn’t post portions on them profiles of people because it was copyrighted. Is this true?

It was my belief that because of the age of it, it was ok to do. It was written in the 1800’s.
in The Tree House by Alice Glassen G2G6 Mach 7 (74.6k points)

This isn't an answer to your question, just an fyi. This book is also available online. There is a free space page for it here:
 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Genealogy_of_the_Tucker_Family

If you go to this free space page, you can click "Wikitree Profiles that use this source." to see other profiles that may be connected to the one you are researching.

There are also lots of other books with free space pages that are available online:
Family Genealogies, that Rick Pierpont "oversees".

I have the book and have been using the online one as well to put in profiles.

Thanks

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Currently works published before 1927 are in the public domain:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1  They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream. Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.
by Dina Grozev G2G6 Pilot (218k points)
selected by Daniel Volkmann
That’s what I thought.

Thanks!

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