Problem with Juab High School yearbook collection on familysearch.org
Recently, when I tried to access Juab High School's online yearbooks at familysearch.org, those for 1989 and after were suddenly not viewable because of "copyright restrictions." I believe this to be a mistake, because 1) the subject yearbooks are decades old; 2) I have viewed them before without restriction; and 3) other much more recent yearbooks for other schools BOTH ON YOUR WEBSITE and others, like ancestry.com and classmates.com are viewable up until just a few years ago. Would you have someone check into this and advise me what has caused this problem? What was previously available to view doesn't suddenly become restricted by copyright. It makes no sense.
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A change in access to yearbooks usually happens when the record custodian (often the school district or the original publisher) updates their copyright or access agreement. FamilySearch doesn’t own the rights to these yearbooks, so if the rights holder changes what they allow to be displayed, FamilySearch must follow those restrictions even if the images were previously viewable. Different websites have different agreements, which is why the same yearbooks may still appear on Ancestry or Classmates. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
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