Copyright Law for Family Historians

The Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) welcomes visitors to its February program meeting where the featured content will be Canada's Copyright legislation. 

Marion Peterson indicates that Martin Kratz is the featured speaker.  Lois Sparling (AFHS member, lawyer who successfully brought the 1911 Canadian Census to the public from Statistics Canada) writes: 

This promises to be the state-of-the-art and most advanced presentation on Canadian copyright law as it applies to family history ever. Mr. Kratz is in charge of the Intellectual Property division of a big law firm and an experienced lecturer (to lawyers and law students)."

Kratz' profile is available at Bennettjones

Mark your calendars and bring your questions regarding copyright.

• Date/Time: Monday, February 5, 7:00pm
• Location: First Christian Reformed Church (3818 14A St SW).

For those interested in the other AFHS event available that evening, Jim Bowman of the Glenbow Archives will speak about their holdings from 6:30 to 7:00 pm at the same location. (Jim Bowman has recently agreed to be my mentor for difficult archival records processing decisions.  Early in his career Jim was also a volunteer at the Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia.)