Copyright & Database Rights

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Last updated: 8 October 2026

Copyright

All material on this site and in the Roll of Scottish Barons — including the text, entry descriptions, biographical and genealogical particulars, page design, and the selection, arrangement and presentation of the register as a whole — is the copyright of the Baronage of Scotland Association unless otherwise stated. It may not be copied, reproduced, republished, distributed or adapted without our prior written permission.

The Association claims no copyright in the coats of arms, or in photographs and images of individuals, shown on the Roll; these remain the property of their respective owners and will be removed on reasonable request.

Database rights

The Roll is a database. The Baronage of Scotland Association is the maker of, and owns the database right in, the Roll under the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997, having made a substantial investment in obtaining, verifying and presenting its contents. The extraction and/or re-utilisation of the whole or any substantial part of the contents of the Roll — by manual or automated means — is prohibited, as is the repeated and systematic extraction of insubstantial parts.

Prohibited uses

Without our prior written consent you must not:

• copy, scrape, harvest, index, mirror or systematically download any part of the Roll or this site, whether by automated or manual means;
• reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the structure, schema or underlying database of the Roll or this site;
• reproduce, republish or redistribute any entry or particulars, in whole or in part;
• use the contents to build, populate, verify or train any other register, database, directory or dataset; or
• present our content as your own, or in any way that implies endorsement or affiliation.

Permitted use

You may view the Roll for personal, non-commercial reference, and you may link to its pages.

Trade marks

“Baronage Association”, “Baronage of Scotland Association”, “Roll of Scottish Barons”, “Roll of the Baronage”, “Roll of the Baronage of Scotland” and the Roll’s emblem are trade marks of the Baronage of Scotland Association, as are the domains “Baronage.com”, “Baronage.net” and “Baronage.org”.

The Association holds these marks defensively, to prevent any other private register trading under the Roll’s name or one confusingly similar. It asserts no right against the Crown or the Court of the Lord Lyon, and would assign without charge to any roll established by Royal Warrant or under the Lord Lyon’s authority.

The Association makes no claim to the words “Baronage” or “Baronage of Scotland” on their own, which are part of the shared heritage of the Scottish baronage.

Enforcement

We monitor for unauthorised copying and reserve all rights and remedies available to us, including under copyright and database-right law.