"D.F. Manno" wrote in message
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In article ,
Will McGugan wrote:

When you post on newsgroups, the text gets sent to numerous news servers
around the world, to mailing lists, and to web forums. You have to
consider your words to be in the public domain, even if someone else
seems to be profiting from them.

No, nothing is in the public domain unless you specifically put it
there. For someone to profit from the use of my Usenet posts is
infringement on my copyright.
--
D.F. Manno

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream
will never die."

Just FYI....

An infringement on your "copyrighted material" is only actionable if you can
show monetary loss from the "theft". Copy right law is not about some sort
of altruistic "ownership", it's really all about money. If you post
information without an attempt to earn from it, but others take your
publicly posted information and manage to profit, it's no more actionable
than a kid selling a bike that Santa gave him for Christmas.

Trust me on this one, okay?