You agree that upon posting any material within a group open to the public on the > Service, you grant eGroups, and its successors and assigns, a >non-exclusive, > worldwide, royalty free, perpetual, non-revocable license under your >copyrights or > other intellectual property rights, if any, in such material, to >use, distribute, display, > reproduce, and create derivative works from such material in any and >all media, in > any manner, in whole or part, without any duty to account to you. > >Problem 1 is that I don't think this is a fair price to pay for a free >service. I agree! I'm a writer and I often use words and concepts in a novel that I first wrote in an online message. Also, if my message included a link to chapters from my novel posted on the web, have I now lost copyright in my own work? This kind of wording would steer me entirely away from the service. Jilla