I have a question about uploading my moms highschool yearbook to memories. Is that ok, if it is from
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@NathanielNotheisen NathanielNotheisen
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Nathaniel
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Certainly, making that "High School, Year Book", from 1986, a PRIVATE "Memory" (which we can NOW do), would, more so, IS, be the way to go; as, MANY of those from 1986 will still be "Living" - falling within with the 110 Year period, for those considered as still possibly "Living", for 'FamilySearch'.
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And, the "Names" (and, possibly, some of the "Details") of those who ARE (still) "Living" WILL be in that "High School, Year Book", from 1986 - which should certainly NOT be accessible/viewable, in "Public", in 'FamilySearch'.
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Brett
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1986 is less than fifty years ago. I graduated in 1962 and a substantial number of my classmates are still alive, so I see putting a yearbook on FamilySearch as a problem, just with respect to privacy laws. Now if you were to scan an isolated image of your mother and post (but only if she is deceased), then there will be no problem.
Public records are generally not impacted by copyright laws, but your mother’s yearbook is not a public record — it is a publication and protected by copyright laws. FamilySearch doesn’t approve uploading material still under copyright.
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Yeah, thanks so much for the feedback. I figured that was the case. Made sure to just check.
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@Tom Huber Interestingly, Ancestry.com has many yearbooks online, including some of mine from just after you graduated. They ask people to donate their yearbooks, after which they will be cut up, scanned, then thrown away (i.e. no return to sender). The person sending the yearbook bears any cost of shipping for their free donation.
Ancestry states:
"Yearbooks printed prior to 1963 and yearbooks printed prior to 1978 that do not contain a copyright notice (©) are not bound by copyright restrictions. Yearbooks printed after 1963 that contain a copyright notice and all yearbooks printed after 1977 are bound by copyright restrictions, and by signing the donation agreement in those cases, the donor is stating that the copyright holder grants permission to Ancestry to publish the yearbooks online."
Personally, not being a copyright attorney, I'd be uncomfortable taking someone else's word for a statement like that and signing my name that I grant permission to publish any yearbook I donate if there's any question at all about copyright. How do I know I've really (legally) got authority to grant such permission for something that - once published on line - will always be visible to anyone from then on?
Additionally, as has been pointed out, there may be privacy issues for some other people in the yearbook. Sometimes comments written in yearbooks (which get published by such companies) can be embarrassing to people still living, along with certain other photos or stories that a person may just wish to have left in the trash bins of history. It may be best to just use the 110 year rule for many things that can be public - photos and documents in the Memories section of FamilySearch CAN be seen publicly, particularly when people are specifically identified in those photos or documents through "tagging." Three of four siblings may be identified in a photo, or 9 out of 10 cousins in a larger photo, but searching for any of the identified (tagged) persons in that image will bring up the entire image, and it wouldn't be hard to figure out who the unnamed person is in the photo. That may be helpful to genealogists, but it also may be very sensitive for various reasons to the unnamed person. Just because we "can," doesn't mean it's always a good thing, because it may impact someone else in ways we may have no idea about. Anyone involved as a therapist doing marriage, family, or individual counseling could certainly verify that statement!
So it's not just about copyright. For anyone thinking that it's OK just because some companies allow it, it actually may need more thoughtful consideration before things are posted with any living people regardless of whether or not they are "tagged" in the photo or document. Not everyone's personal history needed to be published as a Norman Rockwell cover painting or contained in the pages of a story in "Saturday Evening Post" (did I just date myself?? 😁 😎 ). Just my 2¢.
--Chris
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MyHeritage has a large collection of US Yearbooks. A source link can be made to any other website. You can also get the individual picture and add it to Memories and then put the URL in the information about the image.
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