On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 at 07:16:02PM -0600, Ben Parker wrote: > > In general, every person who posts a message to a list, forum, etc. owns the > copyright on their own expression (message). The mere act of posting > necessarily releases that to the 'public'. Got a court case to cite? I strongly doubt that the courts will hold that a copyright holder loses that right by posting. By that reasoning an author would lose copyright by publishing on dead trees. A great deal of open source software is posted, but the author often retains copyright. -rex