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This entire website and its subordinate websites (the Erner Website, the Freiburg Website, etc) are each copyrighted as a whole.
As a general rule, publicly available facts, public information, and extracted lists of public information are not copyrightable. However, value added by the author (editorial content, specific formatting of information, indexes, cross-references, etc) is copyrightable. In accordance with that (and with the fact that the only reason I created this site in the first place was so that researchers could easily find and use the included information), the following restrictions apply to this website:
Each webpage on this website is copyrighted, as a whole.
The facts (names, dates, places, etc) on the genealogical webpages are not copyrighted.
The included “Notes” and other editorial content on each genealogical webpage that were added by the author are copyrighted.
All of the indexes and cross-referenced extract lists, as published, are each copyrighted as a whole [the added hyperlinks, etc are value added by the author].
All direct descendants and related researchers of any of these families are authorized to:
Extract any or all of the publicly available information from any of the webpages on this website, only for the personal use of themselves and/or other direct descendants of these families.
Download any webpages on this website to their own computer, and/or make copies of any webpages on this website, only for their own personal use, and/or for the personal use of other direct descendants of these families, and only as long as any such copies include the copyright notice at the bottom of each page.
Send private copies of any webpage on this website to any other direct descendant of these families, for that person’s own personal use only, and only as long as all such copies include the copyright notice at the bottom of each page.
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All rights to this website, and to any portion of this website, except those specifically disallowed by law, are strictly reserved to the author, Joseph Erner.
Copyright Statement. Last revision: 02 Jan 2007
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