> If Usenet were to become the private property of some entity, that entity > would have legal recourse against unauthorized appropriation of its property. > One way to accomplish this would be to form an organization, "Usenet Inc" > or "The Usenet Society" or something (or align under some existing org > such as Usenix or The Internet Society) and solicit people to join the I don't disagree or agree with what you are saying, but there is already "The Usenet Community Trust", which was created so that some newsgroup (I'm 90% sure it is rec.food.recipes) could copyright its posts. I think a trust would be a better model than a society or other legal establishments, but the general idea has merit. I'm also not an international lawyer. --tal